And away it goes!

There is nothing like the beauty of new, shiny varnished teak. But there is down side here in the semi-tropics, For 6 months Slacker gets to sit here in "Beautiful Downtown Mazatlan" with nobody attending to her beauty regime. The varnish all goes to pot and we spend lots of our 6 months with her scraping and re varnishing. We have slowly worked to get most of her outside painted.  Mind you we still have to varnish, but once you get 5 or 6 good coats of varnish on the teak, you then put on a layer of exterior latex.  We just think of it as her winter coat and another way for her to accessorize.

And the cat watches every move to see if there might be a shrimp under all that old varnish.