Category Archives: Teak

Pneumatic Babes & Teak Caulk

By B.J. | Published April 16, 2009

“Every one says I’m awfully pneumatic,” said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs. I have to admit that the first time I ever read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World I was a bit puzzled by the use of the word pneumatic. In his context it is used to refer with Read On..

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Team Teak!!

By B.J. | Published April 7, 2009

The Admiral busy squishing the air out of a seam of caulk. The family that “Teaks” together stays together. I suppose. When we lost all my help for this project, my wife and I decided that I needed all the help I can get. Maybe it was something about me Read On..

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The Mendacity of Hope

By B.J. | Published March 31, 2009

I’d HOPED to be writing about something other than teak by now. That ain’t happening. Because Teak is now my life. So we’re back from vacation and tomorrow the kids go back to school and I restart the Teak Immersion Process, whereby I bury as many daylight hours as I Read On..

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The Best Laid Plans…

By B.J. | Published March 18, 2009

Must enjoy repetitive drudgery, bent backs, crossed eyes, long hours, lousy pay and awful black crud ingrained in your skin and under your finger nails. Disaster strikes…Jeff found a job. Dave was always a short term proposition since he had a job lined up after graduation, but Jeff and I Read On..

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Proud? More like "Rode Hard…"

By B.J. | Published March 13, 2009

and put away wet. The description “proud of” from my surveryor’s reports always amused me. “The caulk stands proud of the deck…” just sounds so…dignified. Of course it’s not, it’s a concise way of saying “sticking up”. Generally the sticking up is caused by something else wearing down. In this Read On..

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Doing the math…more than a mile?

By B.J. | Published February 27, 2009

I counted the strips of teak caulking on the boat the boat the other day. In the middle of the boat there were slightly more than 100. 100 X 53′ = 5,300 linear feet of caulking. Of course, that’s just an average, some of those strips end before the bow. Read On..

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And then there were Three…

By B.J. | Published February 25, 2009

Somehow, I’ve convinced another of my unwitting classmates to join Jeff and me on the Great Teak Debacle of 2009. Welcome David to the project everyone. Hopefully he will still speak to me when this is over.

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Oh Boy! Another Teak Update

By B.J. | Published February 18, 2009

Hey, it’s what I’m working on and what is consuming my life from a boat work perspective. And it’s February and I already wrote about the damned ice. Self portrait of grit and determination as your humble author digs out more teak from the top of the dodger with the Read On..

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The Teak Blade

By B.J. | Published February 12, 2009

In case anyone was curious, it’s really quite simple. It has a U shape at the bottom of it which is roughly the width of the teak groove. The circular portion is where it attaches to the Fein Multmaster, which vibrates the whole thing to give it it’s cutting action. Read On..

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So it wasn’t four hours…

By B.J. | Published February 12, 2009

But I did get over there to work on the Teak a bit today. More tomorrow – it’s actually warm here, I wish we were ready to do some caulking. There are two sorts of grooves in the teak – shallow more ornamental ones, and deep ones that run all Read On..

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