Fruits Of My Labor (A-113)

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AND you and your partner getting your own cottage!

The IPE deck next door here has another anomally that you may have alluded to in your post above .... it's a bloody dark and heavy wood.
The wood used as an exposed deck material at another structure on the property here has never been coated and gone grey. The deck next door was, as I said, oiled. The house-keeper for the estate lives there and the sliding glass wall-doors, year round, were kept totally covered inside and out in an attempt to ward off heat generated by the wood! The dark non-porus wood blasts heat like iron metal when the sun beats on it. The owner called in his favorite contractor and most of the decks have now been covered with roof and tinted polycarbonate panels. Good landlord!
You could stand on the deck in the spring sunshine and feel the heat growing underfoot, like standing on a stove burner.
The other grayed-out Ipe deck produces nowhere near the same noticable heat.

So, those varnished trim pieces on the boat in Mike's pic - in hot sun - would be rather uncomfortable, IF they were any darker.
The blond trim looks right-on.
Wonder if there's any varnish that has reflective flecks in its formula, looks the same but bounces some of the sun away?

Tony, It would not be amiss to see befor and afters of your '30's bungalow !
Your next home should have a keel.