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Old 01-27-2016, 03:37 PM   #2
Marin
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We have much the same situation with our boat, which has a rainforest of teak on the exterior. Full-time work limits the time we have to spend maintaining the wood.

If the time between removing the old finish with heat and scrapers and the final sanding prior to putting on the first coat of finish is a couple of weeks or so I think you're just fine, particularly in a drier climate.

Up here we have rain to contend with, but as long as the wood is completely dry before final sanding and the start of finish application we've never had a problem. However we do try to get the first application of finish on as soon as possible after the old finish removal and surface prep. It's not always possible, however.

After finish removal and surface prep we always apply a couple of coats of CPES to seal the upper layer of raw wood cells with epoxy before we start to apply the finish we use, which is Bristol.

A technique I learned from the founder of the Grand Banks Owners forum is to apply the first coat of finish--- whatever it happens to be--- over the last coat of CPES while the CPES is still a bit tacky. This adheres the first coat of finish even tighter and helps resist moisture penetration under the finish which of course is what causes problems with the finish later on.
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