After reading about this in the old files I'm still a bit leary, my "M" has water stains near the window openings on the window trim pieces where the water leaked in (luckily almost nowhere else). Does each piece need to be removed and sanded completely or is it possible to 'touch this up' without the part removal? The wood bleached out where the water saturated it, almost completely removing any stain/varnish that was there. Any sugestions on stain/varnish for this? Not being a woodworker (that's one of the reasons why I bought the 'M') I'm hesitant to start this part of my restoration without some advice. A lot of the old files delt with teak and I don't think this trim is teak, maybe mahogony? JAM

:d/ We just completed the salon area of our 37 . We ended up sanding all the mahogany down to get the water stains out ( Be careful on the panels) they are real thin and easy to sand through the grain. After trying to touch areas up we ended our frustration by just redoing the whole salon. Then following the directions on the can of GUNSTOCK color stain we applied the stain let it set for 2 minutes then began workin it into the wood Buy workin it into the wood we were able to control the stain and not allowing it to get to dark. We also added three drops of cherry to every 12 oz of stain, This brought the red mahogany color out real nice. Took us 4 days start to finish. Make sure you get all the water stain out or it won't take the stain and will come back with a vengeance .

I was going to try a product called Restor-a-Finish on my water stained panels in my project 32'. It was the only stuff that fixed up the sun bleached wall panels in a house I prepared for sale. On the teak trim a light sanding and teak oil does a good job. On my project 28' I had to replace the panels because they were delaminated and stinky with mildew.