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I have a 1975 Boston whaler 13 sport and I'm redoing the wood and I want to have some suggestions on what color stain I should get. I want to do like a dark brown but not too dark.(If that makes sense) Im doing black bottom paint so I want like a darker stain.

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I've redone the wood on several classic Whalers and have never used stain.

I just brought the old wood down clean wood through sanding, then applied varnish.

After 5-7 coats, the wood takes on a nice golden hue.

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I used Epifanes Dutch Mahogony red stain and love it. Its not "too red"

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Why would you need to stain mahogany with mahogany stain?

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I used stain as P.O. had stained the wood with it before the last varnish. I was taking the seats down to bare wood and top of console, however, the rest of consul I just roughed up and added more varnish.

I like the way it turned out and helped mask some of the dark spots in the wood. I would have skipped it but was the best way to match my wood.

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More pics

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Oh my.
those thwarts are DARK.

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2 coats of stain. 11 coast epifanes varnish with first 4 very thinned out.