This is what Cetol did to our wood when we still used the product 5 years ago.
If you want to leave the wood raw I'd hand-sand the varnish off to bare wood.
i recently commented on another discussion about my assisting apply cetol on anothers boat...i would like to make mention(in case i was thought to have kudoed cetol) that my intention wasnt to rate cetol or recommend it, only mention th process that went into th product we used...that pic looks like what we hand-sanded, only to reapply.
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