Category Archives: Teak

While I know that all of you have been on the edges of your seats for months awaiting an update to the Great Teak Debacle of 2009 there’s not been a lot to update. Since the last update Chris has been working on the detail sanding while I deal with Read On..

“All major teak sanding operations on Evenstar have ended.” Hopefully my prognostications will be better than some others in the past, but we have finished sanding all of the large areas of the deck. What is left is more detail sanding – lots of that, but all of the belt Read On..

If you put your face up really close and squint, parts of the boat are starting to look really, really good. There is still a whole boatload of ugly to be had with all of the unsanded areas, but every day and in every way it’s getting better and better. Read On..

The cover comes off today. Not because the deck is done, but because I am being evicted from the docks and I need to move the boat out to the mooring. The club discovered the boat is too big for them to comfortably tow so I have to get it Read On..

So I was so excited about finishing the caulk run on the decks that I totally forgot about two small spots. The small square for the life raft platform right in front of the dodger (about 2.5′ x 2.5′) and the floor panels in the cockpit under the driver’s seat. Read On..

On one hand, I get a day…nay, a weekend off, to make some social obligations I was stressing over. Stressing because it would be hard to enjoy myself knowing it was sunny and warm and I should be running out caulk. On the other hand we are completely dead in Read On..

So there is the promised sample of the test spot I sanded. It’s coming out OK, better than I’d expected and closer to what I had hoped. There is a LOT of sanding to do. Behold, the results of the Great La Brea Mammoth Stampede of 2009: Yikes. Better figure Read On..