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Paulus

I am including a pic.  Took these off.  Brought them home and managed to damage one with the router.  Not sure the technical name of these pieces of trim are but the pic will show it.  If anyone knows were I can buy a replacement, would be much appreciated. I need the starboard side and maybe will have to replace both of them??
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KWKloeber

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The history about H&L (who supplied the teak) has been told before!
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Jim Hardesty

Can't tell from your picture what the damage was. Considering matching the rest of the trim, perhaps a repair would look the best. Lots of ways to repair wood, some are very attractive in themselves.
Jim
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scgunner

Paulus,

Since you've got a router you've probably got saws too. Just make a new one or both, it's pretty easy. You can find teak in the thickness you need at any lumber yard or even West Marine. It's just a matter of matching grain and color, you should be able to get pretty close. Then it's just cutting and shaping.

I replaced all the pieces around the hatch including those with Starboard and I didn't find it that challenging so I don't see you having a problem making up a couple of new teak pieces.
Kevin Quistberg                                                 Top Gun 1987 Mk 1 Hull #273

Paulus

Thanks for all the advice. The one in the pic is the good one.  I am in the process of making two new ones so the color would match.  The one shown is 30yrs old. 
Thanks, Paul
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Ron Hill

Paulus : Out of curiously what were you doing with a router on those pieces after you took them Off???
 
If Broken? - I've always had good luck gluing teak back together with epoxy or resorcinol.  Just take lacquer thinner and clean the break so you remove the natural oil in the wood before gluing.

A question? and a thought!
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Paulus

Ron, 
I had taken these pieces off to sand and revarnish.  Thought that I could clean the concave edges with the router.  The first piece worked great. The second piece was half finished and had to turn it so that the edge of the piece was protruding over my work area.  Nearly finished and the router tipped slightly.  Took a significant piece off the leading edge. Not broken but disfigured. (My wife had already questioned the idea of using the router) I do have a saw but at present time is residing in Northern Ontario, at my son,s cottage.
PS:  I have the news ones finished, made by an engineering firm that does all the teak work for Tara Yachts. 
Paul
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Phil Spicer

  Paul us, nice solution
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Roland Gendreau

Paulus,
Where did you buy the teak for the trim pieces? Could you get the same thickness?
how did you fashion the convex exdges, if not with a router?
I need to replace both of my trim pieces due to cracks.

Roland
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Noah

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Lots of places to buy online, but it is not cheap. Google is your friend, search "Teak lumber". I would probably start with a 3/8 in. teak board. Then (I would think) you could do all the cutting and shaping with a sabre saw/skill saw, a power sander and/or hand sanding.
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Paulus

The engineering firm that does all the teak work for Tara Yachts had the teak and they also cut them to size and put the concave edge on each one. This firm is about 10 miles from my home.  I had used them before to make new eyebrows.
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KWKloeber

Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the tradewinds in your sails.
Explore.  Dream.  Discover.   -Mark Twain