YATT (Yet Another Teak Thread)

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If you're truly willing to scrub it once a week, I've had good luck with non-skid deck cleaner. The deck cleaner has some oxalic acid in it to bleach the wood and has good foaming action to remove dirt. I've used this method with a Black and Decker "scrubrusher"; a 12v rotary brush. This is kind of important because scrubbing parrallel to the grain will create grooves in the teak which will look awful. Mostly, all you want to do is remove the surface dirt. If you're really doing it once a week, there won't be time for the sun to make it go grey. I liked the look of the bare teak (I didn't oil it or anything), but eventually discovered that I'd rather take the boat sailing than scrub it, so the teak went back to grey. I've since switched to Cetol.

PS, if the teak has gotted really grey, it may take some sanding to get it back to the point where scrubbing is effective.

[sailingdog]

I'd rather be sailing than varnishing.