Teak Decking

[mackey]

Hi, I am considering buying a secong hand ribeye (2003) 785 with 225Hp Yam 4 stroke. The boat has teak decking in it and I was wondering if there are any problems or costs that i need to be aware of. Or what happens as the boat gets older etc. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Mackey

[roycruse]

Is it real teak or flexiteak? I dont know what ribeye put on their boats.

The later is extremely durable and low maintenance.

[roycruse]

http://www.ribeye.co.uk/products/accessories.asp

looking at the Ribeye site - there standard "Teak" offering is fake teak. So unless the boat your looking at was specifically ordered and built with a real teak deck I think you can assume you wont have any of the maintenace tasks assosiated with real teak.

You can just pressure wash the fake stuff.

[The Jackeens]

Originally Posted by roycruse

The later is extremely durable and low maintenance.

Agree with roycruse. (1 day to go? new boat?)
And it looks trim also.

Us

[roycruse]

Originally Posted by The Jackeens

(1 day to go? new boat?)

Yes - I pick up my Ribcraft 585 tomorrow (thursday)

[timw]

I have "teak" decking on my RibEye 750.

It's not real but extremely durable, looks great and gives no problems whatsoever.

[Tibs]

I've spent time with the Flexiteek decks in a RIBCRAFT. Expensive, but gives a nice finished look and provides great traction, especially when wet.

Also, no maintenance.

[Cookee]

We use TEK deck on the BananaSharks - it's a great product and very similar to Flexi teak. We have found it has excellant noslip qualities even when wet and is very low maintenance.