Teak Talk

As a boy working at the Westport Marina during my summer vacations, I spent many hours, days, weeks, cleaning, brightening, and oiling the teak on clients’ boats. You’d think the legacy of those years would be a teak-free Rosslyn. But no. I love the it too much! So most springs, right about now, we dive into a couple of weeks of teak talk as we ready deck furniture for duty.

This year, Pam‘s conscientious orchestration is to credit for being ahead of schedule when it comes to cleaning, brightening, and oiling our teak furniture. (The photos in today’s post actually come from previous springs — the first two images of the chairs date to May 2012, the table top image to May 2017, and the final image to May 2020 — because she ensured that everything was taken care of Kate last fall when furniture was put away for the winter!)

Normally May is when we dive into teak talk. Best practice, most efficient ways to scrub away the old grey wood, how to keep the wood uniformly damp during brightening, how much drying time before applying the oil finish,…

But this spring, thanks to Pam, we can sidestep the teak talk to appreciate the inimitable beauty of refinished teak. Much work, true. But an art apart!

Thanks for shifting things up this spring, Pam. The rewards of a late autumn (and a disciplined taskmaster!)