In this video you will see how we made the decision to remove the teak from the deck of our classic 51' Formosa Sailboat. We had leaks and the teak was worn ...

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hey Jill here with the sailing vessel

dreamchaser and in today's episode we

are going to start redoing our net we're

going to start by pulling up the deck on

the on the boat this is likely going to

be a multi-part series and run exactly

how long this what can we pull up the

deck today here we have our little

helper on deck over here just off camera

and fill up a big Tupperware bin full of

water for the sunshade up and she's

playing with her duck she's diving

diving ponies ah there's your ducky and

huh okay we actually started pulling up

this take a little while ago we started

up in the little anchor well and I

removed it there just a suit of it like

in a small piece of the deck rough plan

is this we are going to start on the

port side of the boat from the

coach-house forward and we're going to

remove up the teeth the idea here is to

use a chisel and try and break some of

it up right crowbar I should say and see

what we can lift up off the back this

time I'm going to do something a little

bit different and we don't really know

if we have any core Rock below the teak

obviously the seams have been leaking

for quite some time there was not a lot

of caulking we talked about we do know

that water gets down below the teeth we

certainly add some drips below what I

don't know is if it's intruded between

the two layers of fiberglass and wood

core so they're going to do a little bit

different today is we're actually going

to what could pull this teacup I'm gonna

drill a few holes in the deck just to

inspect with that cords don't know if

it's balsa wood or plywood or what

happens to be I don't want to see if

it's wet so that's our our goal here

today

once we drill these exploratory holes

we're going to look in there and kind of

see whether or not this core is wet and

if it is there's gonna be sections in

the top skin we'll have to pull off and

replace the core we just don't know yet

what we're gonna find in it but the

rough plan is this will patch those

holes up because we're not gonna get all

this done in a single weekend we'll

patch those holes up and the rough plan

here is we're going to move all the teak

smooth it out put another layer of

fiberglass

never gonna put a we're going to paint

it I'm going to do some kind of Kiwi

grip or non-skid material on top that's

the time so here we went ahead and

prepared the deck we'd had plastic over

the deck we kind of pulled the plastic

back on one side of it you can kind of

see we have the babies playing on top of

that side of it on the other side we've

exposed the teak and here's what we're

actually going to start to do out over

but we needed to prep the deck first to

do that so here I'm going ahead and I'm

removing this deck box this deck box was

actually worth it all the way down

through the deck you can kind of hear as

I'm pulling this oh it's just so rotted

it's kind of pulling right through the

bottom of that and we know we had some

water intrusion down below so the goal

here is to get this lifted up out of the

way so we can expose the teak down below

and start removing all just getting this

out

got it you got it

shoveling I agree

well there's some on the other boat in

probably the freezer and the fridge

see why you can see this got one strip

kind of pulled up along there and then

that part we took out earlier

Debbie's ready to do some work sitting

so I'm gonna get a screwdriver

you

you

we tried a lot of different ways of

pulling up the deck you saw the shovel

method before it didn't end up working

great because the shovel would the

shovel would hit the screws and kind of

tough to get it levered in there way we

found work the best is exactly what

you're seeing here we would take a flat

crowbar we would push it underneath the

deck with a rubber mallet we would pound

that in if we we hit it in all the way

it got us about five slats up once we

hammered it in all the way it was good

and tight it was hard to pull out so we

would take a second more needy crowbar

and we would hammer that in the gap

right between the crowbar and the side

that was still fastened well to the deck

once we Hammer that in there we give a

slight tug up on it and and it would

loosen up the flat bar and then we would

hold a flat bar forward like you see

right here obviously pound it back in

and sort of repeat this process all the

way all the way through you know all the

way through the slats I tried to go the

full run wherever I could you could get

a good four to six slots wide across as

you did so it worked

pretty darn good I must say so I know

this looks a little bit funny here but

you know we actually ended up doing this

for good it was probably a good hour and

a half or two hours you just to pull

this up so I went ahead and sped this up

this is this is 20 year 2025 times speed

or 20 times speed here or so but it was

a good way to go ahead and kind of show

the progress we were making and you can

kind of see what it looked like and do

what we told this man here's a good view

of how that wood was starting to pull up

and I know I'm pulling the screws right

through the teak I'm really not too

worried about that then really seemed to

matter too much and then later I'll show

a blooper where I actually pounded this

thing right into my foot you know just

didn't feel too good

it was now time to haul off the teeth so

I made multiple trips and tossed it all

up into the back of my car I went ahead

and put it in a storage shed for a

little bit I'm going to use some of

these as accent pieces as I redo some of

the deck boxes and potentially even

hatches so I'm gonna save it really the

core is ok we'll we'll grind out a

little angle Oh

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