Exterior wood varnish

[Clive George]

Any recommendations? It's for a pitch pine porch. I'm not after staining or colour.

[Stuart Noble]

Shame to put anything on pitch pine as it's inherently pretty weather proof

[Clive George]

It got varnished when it was put up, and looks much better where it is than where it's come off - gone to that grey colour most wood does in weather.

[Stuart Noble]

Being resinous, pitch pine doesn't take finishes well. I'd be looking at aliphatic polyurethane varnishes. Expensive, and usually marketed as "yacht varnish", but a world away from the the bog standard (aromatic) polyurethane.