Real or fake teak deck? special episode 4K

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In this special episode we talk with Flexiteek about their alternative solution to real teak we discuss the pros and cons, maintenance and the process to do the change. After the interview Anders and I head over to the new Arcona 50, which recently has been appointed European Yacht of the year and it happen be that the boat at the exhibition is equipped with Flexiteek so we wanted to see how it looked and while there we of cause made a short boat tour of the Arcona 50.
We are a middle aged couple that has left our hectic business lives to go sailing with our boat Fridá af Wisby and our cat Litza. Our goal is not to go to a specific place but to reach a state of mind where we can really enjoy life.
Anders has been at the sea most of his life and sailed for the Swedish national dingy sailing team as a young man. Gitte has also grown up with boats and spent every summer sailing with her father as a teenager but made a pause of about 15 years without sailing as an adult, had just begun to pick-up the interest before she meet Anders in 2017. Onboard we also have our cat Litza a 4 year old Devon Rex we call her the cattain because cats always decide over their humans.
Fridá af Wisby is a Wauquiez 47 pilot saloon that we Gitte and Anders bought in UK in 2019 and that we have sailed to Gotland and in season 1 2020 we sail in the Baltic Sea. During season 2 We sailded south to Dieppe Normandy France. After a winter in France in Season 3 we started to sail the Atlantic coast of Europe to Xufre in Spain where we lifted the boat over the summer while we where back in Gotland to work at our hostel we got there. Season 4 got a short sailing season where we only sailed to Lagos on the Algarve coast of Portugal where we hauled out once again this time to go throug a long list of boatwork and to build a solar arch to make the boat more self-suficient with electricity. After 6 months in Lagos we kicked-off season 5 with real bluewater sailing first to the northerly Atlantic island Porto Santo and Madeira and then further out to the Azores that lays in the middle of the Atlantic ocean before turning back towards the mainland and south coast of Portugal again.

[@Sothis42c]

Hi Frida, I bought a PS47 2006 4 years ago. We removed all the screws from the deck and replaced the sicaflex. It would have been a good idea to put epoxy on the screws holes, but we did not. Anyway, results so far is perfect and I think it will stay some more years.

[@SailingFridaafWisby]

Hi yes we have looked into that aswell unfortunately our deck has beed sanded at some point or maybe even points so the teak itself are very thin so it will probably not survive to be removed and then be put back on again