Trojan Boat Forum

I have some badly water stained wood areas in my salon and various other areas in my F32. Any ideas on how I can bring this wood back to it's original or almost original condition?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

You can use Oxalic Acid for minor darkening. It can be found at some hardware stores and most specialty wood suppliers. For areas that are very dark, use a two part system such as Dayls or Nu-Tone if you can find it. Carefull when you use these, read the instructions and pay close attention to the safety recommendations. Some teak cleaners also contain the active chemicals commonly used to remove wood stains.

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Is the affected area lighter or darker? All of the areas of water intrusion in my tri-cabin were lighter in color than the surrounding wood. I used teak oil and applied it liberally to all of the wood, not just the affected area, about every two weeks for a couple months and my wood now all looks the same - you can't tell where the water intrusion was.

Good point Tim; depending on conditions it may not get darker, but lighter instead. Under both circumstances though, if you can get behind the stained wood, check to see if there is any mould or structural damage.

no mold and yes the water stained areas are lighter. Thanks for the help!!!

The salon area on my F36 had the same issues when I bought it. I used Clorox II to scrub it all down. After it dried I then took and oiled it all down. Some areas I did have to scrub more than once.

1 Find a MinWax color to match.
2 Clean with Dooleys Furniture cleaner, or other water based wood cleaner, (NEVER Murphys).
3 Apply stain with a rag on bad spots only, first, and rub in throughly till dry.
4 Re-apply stain over entire cleaned area or board and when dry,buff out with a clean lint free rag.
The results will suprise you.

Rich Schwochow wrote: 2 Clean with Dooleys Furniture cleaner, or other water based wood cleaner, (NEVER Murphys).

can you shed some light on why not, using murphys on the wood?

I am curious about why not to use Murphy's too.

Is it because it is an oil based soap?

ME TOO

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The suspense is killing me what is wrong with Murphys Wood Soap???

Hated it when I was a lad and mom made us use it on everything.

Now I use it on my own floors and furniture.

Can't figure out why its not trojan worthy?

Murphy's Oil soap is a great cleaner for "FINISHED" wood of almost any type. Remember, it contains vegetable oil. We use this kind of oil daily to keep things from sticking. You want your wood to be clean and free of any oils. Stains do not absorb into the wood if they have any oil residue. Thats the only reason not to use it at this time.

Very good point.

And on my Trojan, the interior wood is not sealed or waxed.

So if I follow your tips, I have faith I will fix the few number of water stains on my starboard side BUT this summer I am redoing both side windows with all the info and tid bits I have picked up from this site!

Some said use watco teak oil but I know that won't match. In fact that will make it worse!

I used watco teak oil on my teak and the color is much darker than the interior. I am a firm believer in the watco oil (very cheap @ home depot) but some might not think that the dark beautiful almost mahogony color is up to todays standards!

Watco much better than the previous owners method of using liquid gold!!!!!

Contrary to some, Trojan didn't use oil on the interior and heres why. Us old wooden Trojan guys would always say it smells like a Trojan. The reason for this was that they used "Cuprinol" on almost all of the wood in the entire boat. This was an old tried and true method of wood preserver. It works great but has an unusual and distinct odor. Because of the chemical make-up in Cuprinol, teak oil would never dry throughly. Most all of the plywood in a Trojan even that which has a venier of mahogany has Cuprinol on the ply, so a stain is the only thing that dosen't leach out on clothes,pillows, or fabrics. 30 years ago I even sanded,washed, and bleached the interior, then teak oiled it. It still felt tacky. Us oldtimers could walk blindfolded through a boat junkyard and find the Trojan.