The teak floorboards in my Caledonia Yawl have served me well since I launched the boat in 2005, but, like me, they’ve grown much grayer over the past 19 years. I’ve accepted that change of color for myself, but I thought it would be worth trying to restore my floorboards to their youthful appearance. After 19 years, my Caledonia Yawl’s teak floorboards had lost the glow of their original color. I had wiped them down once with boiled linseed oil, but that only picked up the black of shoe soles and smeared it on the wood.
Photographs by the author
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I have understood that most if not all teak-oil systems make the teak slippery when wet – possibly the most important matter in teak deck is that it is not slippery even when wet. How does this product affect the non-slipperiness of wet teak?