Dressing up the 21 cabin interior with wood

[Steamboat_Willie]

Now that we've owned our 2008 21EC for a season I'm considering dressing up the cabin interior with some teak wood. (We ordered our boat with the wood wheel and flooring option from the factory.) My motivation for this is that when we downsized to the 21EC from our old C&C sailboat we kept a few of the nautical accessories that were mounted in the sailboat cabin. (i.e. nice Weems & Plath brass oil lamp, brass time/tide clock, brass thermometer, etc..) Now I'd like to mount them in the 21 cabin. However in the 21 cabin I don't have the luxury of having teak wood on the walls as I did on the sailboat which provided me with a surface to drill mounting holes. Thus with only a fiberglass wall available in the 21 cabin I'm not comfortable drilling ANY mounting holes at all. I'm thinking that some teak wood tastefully added to the cabin interior might look nice and subsequently provide me with a wood surface for drilling mounting holes.

Has anyone considered dressing up the interior cabin on their 21 with wood like this so that some nautical accessories could be mounted? Any suggestions on how I could attach some teak planking to the fiberglass cabin walls? The walls are not straight surfaces but actually have a very slight curve to them. I'm thinking 3/8 (?) inch teak planking with something like Plexus methacrylate glue. Kinda wish the factory offered this type of additional decorative wood planking option for the cabin walls.
Any suggestions?
Ed ("Steamboat Willie")

 

[Andrew Custis]

You can do a couple things to "adhere" teak to the glass. We use a simple 1100 marine grade sealant or 5200 which is also an adhesive. Believe it or not but this stuff holds very well. You can use many different things but this seems the easiest. If you "Never" want this to be removed then get a hold of thickso. This is a catalyst activated fiberglass putty that spreads like bondo and takes about 30 minutes to harden. Dont plan on ever getting it off if you use this 😀

 

[Steamboat_Willie]

Andrew, thanks for the tips. I can't seem to locate any product called "Thickso" on the internet. But it sounds interesting. Is that the actual product name? What is the name of the manufacturer? I've done many a structural repair of some sort using glue where the word NEVER was certainly quite applicable. If not used for this application, it sure seems like a useful thing to know about for future projects or repairs.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Ed ("Steamboat_Willie")

 

[Andrew Custis]

Sorry about that. This is a resin based fiberglass strand putty and the technical name for it is Thixo. Sometimes my spelling gets me into to trouble. 😀