The teak handrails on Ricochet (#89) gave out about 6 years ago. We considered "flipping" the inside rails to the outside, but the interior hand rails were made from maple, not teak so dropped this idea. We found a local shop that made us new teak rails using the old rails as a pattern. We had them made a little beefier than the originals and used new 3/16 thru bolts as the originals after drilling the cabin top holes oversized, filling with West System, and re-drilling to size. Two coats of Cetol Marine anually has kept them looking as new as the day they were installed.
