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My confidence thus improved I decided to have a go at new washboards as well. The old ones where in a bad shape with some serious delamination of the plywood in the lower part. I bought a piece of teak plywood instead of the old mahogany one. After sawing it to the right dimensions I had to decide whether to leave it in one piece or to saw it in half creating two pieces as before. After some thinking I decided to go for one single piece. I have kept the old ones, so in case I wanted only half a board in I can always use the old one. Also the most important thing is that the board keeps the rain out when the boat sits in it's berth. Thus the decision for one board.

I could re-use the old lock from the previous washboard. After varnishing the new one looked like this.