Teak Refinished

[Salty19]

Through bolts are the way the factory delivered the handrails, eyebrows, the two companionway slider holds and the companionway door holds.  Look closely, you'll see small teak caps where the bolts are.  I imagine they are stronger than just screw in from underneath.  But being a cheating dog, I didn't want to replicate this as chances are good it would not have come out as good as the factory.  Yes, Mike, I am a cheating dog.  Handrails and sliders are new.  Everything else is restored.  Had some cracks in the sliders that were kinda big.  The teak from Hutchins actually is not that expensive at all.  Much less than you may expect.

[skip1930]

For the hand rails, companion way hatch sliders, and the eye brows are just screwed into the wood or fiberglass. The Eyebrows [fiberglass] as stated are screwed on from the outside and capped. But the other stuff on my boat are screwed on from the bottom. I used these screws to hold my fire extinguisher and VHF radio. No new holes!

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[wes]

Interesting. My 19/3 (1988) was built just like Salty's - through bolted hand rails, eyebrows, companionway hatch slides, companionway drop board slides. I can see some logic in changing to wood screws for the lighter duty items (drop board slides etc.) but you can bet I'm going with the through-bolts on those handrails. In an emergency they might experience a great deal of force, possibly at an angle (not a straight upward pull) and that's the moment I really wouldn't want them to pull out. Too many bad experiences in the past with wood screws. After fighting for hours to remove the old teak from it's lifetime anchorage in 5200 (thank goodness for the miracle of Debond Marine Formula), I'm not going to subject a future owner (or me, if I live that long) to the same misery - I'm going with 4200 to bed this stuff, and rely on the hardware to take the brunt of the force. To each his own!

- Wes