LM30 - Wood hand rails

[jdp]

I have been slowly working through various jobs on Lone Star LM30 - 1986 and I've now come to the hand rails on the wheelhouse.

Can anyone advise me what wood they are made from, they are unvarnished and greyish in colour leading me to think they may be teak.

If they are teak what suggestions for protecting them.

Many thanks ,

John

[Brian & Glenda]

I believe that the pilothouse handrails, the cabin top handrails, and the wooden trim on the slope from the pilothouse top to the cockpit coamings, are indeed teak. I tried oil, didn't like the result. I now use Cetol Marine Light, a durable Interlux product. I have to recoat every two years. It won't last three years without cracking here on the wild wet coast of British Columbia, which requires a total re-sand and reapplication. (Climate much like Britain, but very much drier this year! Climate change I guess.)

[jdp]

Many thanks Brian & Glenda I will give the Cetol a try
We have had a high pressure area just to the west of the uk for weeks now - great if you live in the West but here on the East coast it brings cold northerly’s - so have not been out much
It’s due to change at the weekend so planning some sails
Thanks & happy summer sailing
John