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Old 11-24-2022, 12:04 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by STB View Post
Out of curiosity, can you describe the failures, including time-to-fail?
Guy across the pier from me had his teak professionally done two years ago with Awlwood. It looked pretty good to start with. After one year it was starting to lift and cloud, mainly at the edges and wood joints. This is about the end of year two and there are large areas lifted and clouded, it looks horrible.

I didn't see them do the application and perhaps mistakes or shortcuts were made. They did take it back to bare teak, and they did use the primer. I do not know what their experience with the product is. I do know that even a slap dash varnish job would look better than that and last longer. That's why I say there may be tricks with Awlwood, or perhaps it is finicky.

There are a couple of other boats on the dock with lifting and clouding Awlwood, I don't know as much about the particulars, but the owners confirmed that it was Awlwood. As I said, I've seen some other boats that look really good with Awlwood, and there are people that swear by it.
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