[strick]

Thanks fellas

Thats a good piece of advice about heating the tube to make it stronger....I never thought of that. I guess I got lucky with the Cetol...to be honest I did not put much thought into which teak product to get. The guy at West Marine mentioned the article in Power Boats so thats why I went with it. I put 3 coats of it on the teak..did not sand in between coats.

As far as when to cut the holes thats kinda like six one half a dozed or the other. I dot see any real advantage to doing it before paint other then it may save a tiny bit of fairing and paint. It's just the way I do it. If I had a real large area to cut out I may do it prior to paint. Thanks again...more photos to come soon.

strick