Originial teak covering boards were starting to show fasteners and getting pretty thin. Removing old covering boards. Fitting new teak covering boards. Using West System to glue down new covering boards. Gluing down covering board around bait well. Roundover routed in. Shaping and sanding beginning. Finished teak covering board install. Corner joint where gunwale meets transom. Detail at tuna door. New baitwell lid. Another view of finished teak covering board install. Teak deck repair in sailboat cockpit. Small area of deck had to be take up to access helm pedestal bolts. Dry fitting new deck pieces. Pattern designed to blend in repair to the rest of cockpit sole. Installed using Teak Deck Systems adhesive and seam compound and sanded out. Hurricane damaged section of a built up toe rail. Detail of where the toe rail broke apart at the scarf joint. Toe rail repair was brought back to the scarf joint maintaining the boats symetry to give a like it never happened repair. Teak strips forming the built up to rail ready to be glued in form. Toe rail blank being glued up in form taken from the boat to provide an exact match to original shape and construction technique. New scarf joint cut into replacement piece. Another view of the replacement piece showing built up design. New piece being installed. Joint will have interior face installed in place. Finished repair gives as good as new construction. Final shape and sanding. Varnish being applied. Little frames provided tenting to keep off the dew during finishing process. Completed toe rail repair seen from the deck. Repaired section like damage never happened. Teak trim on Jersey Devil sport fish was nearing the end of life with exposed fasteners and opening joints. Original woodwork ready to be replaced. Old teak trim removed, boat side cleaned and prepped for new woodwork. New trim being installed. New teak trim shaped, sanded and finished with a rubbed oil effect. Corner detail on new teak trim. Teak deck accents added to Boston Whaler at entry points. Another view of teak accent on Boston Whaler. Transom rail had been removed leaving deck core exposed to water damage. Core sealed with thickened epoxy. Holes filled with teak plugs to be blended in during later varnish work.
Boat Carpentry
