Besides teak which goes silver in sun/salt - what other woods are
good/OK for long term exterior use (like in a hard dodger) without any
finish.

Iroko, but will erode faster than teak.


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wrote:

Besides teak which goes silver in sun/salt - what other woods are
good/OK for long term exterior use (like in a hard dodger) without any
finish.

Our boat in done inside and out in Narra. Weathers and wears
like teak but only costs a third to a forth as much.I bought 50
bd-ft from EcoTimber in northern California a couple of years
ago.

Doug
s/v Callista

"bert" wrote in message
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Besides teak which goes silver in sun/salt - what other woods are
good/OK for long term exterior use (like in a hard dodger) without any
finish.

"bert" wrote in message
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Besides teak which goes silver in sun/salt - what other woods are
good/OK for long term exterior use (like in a hard dodger) without any
finish.

Redcedar

Meindert

bert wrote:
Besides teak which goes silver in sun/salt - what other woods are
good/OK for long term exterior use (like in a hard dodger) without any
finish.

Locust. It's supposedly the most rot resistant wood there is. Fence
posts made with it can last more than 30 years.

Make sure it is black locust not honey locust.

bert wrote in message . ..
Besides teak which goes silver in sun/salt - what other woods are
good/OK for long term exterior use (like in a hard dodger) without any
finish.

In the nursery when my dad was young they used cyprus for the
planters, it did not rot.
Scotty