Re: Teak
[/QUOTE]Bushwacker: Have you had that beauty for 30 years?
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Bought it in 1975, so I guess it'll be 33 years in a couple of months. Found it at Brown & Hauptner Marine before Waterway Cafe was built on the site. Was a 1-owner boat; belonged to father of a guy I used to work with that had a 67 SeaCraft 21! It had spent some time in a covered rack building but he also kept it in water at son's house which explains the bottom paint. Dad was evidently a bit of a klutz with docking as there are a few spider cracks along gunnel from some dock walloping and one spot of barnacle rash on the gel coat, but otherwise it's in pretty decent shape. Bought it as-is and put a new 115 Evinrude on it which never quit on me the whole time I had it and was running good when I sold it. Just got tired of the noise, smoke and 2 mpg performance; after 30+ years I was ready for some newer technology! Deck is solid and when Don Herman filled in the transom, he said it was the driest one he'd ever seen in a boat that old! I did 2 things when I bought it that protected the transom:
The first was to follow Brown & Hauptner's practice of removing the aluminum trim around the transom cut-out and replacing the brittle polyester putty in the cap-to-hull gap with Life Caulk. They did this on all the new boats they sold. Also pulled out the baitwell inlet/outlet plug under port stern seat and resealed it, as it had started to leak.
Currently fixing up an old galley seat I got from 73Seafari. Hope to have it ready for Long Point gathering.
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