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People who have been around boats a lot seem to recoil with fear when I tell them how I refinished the interior of my Chris Craft, which is paneled in solid mahogany, with some of the flat sections being high quality "Chris Craft Grade" veneer made up of all mahogany plywood.

I use a traditional varnish to fill the open grain of mahogany, and then I finish it with a wipe on polyurethane by Minwax. It sounds bad, but it works great. The results have been in service for years with NO deterioration. The furniture grade wipe on furniture finish, is so think it can not leave any brush strokes when it dries. It is a great finish!