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Re: Flybridge Enclosures

Posted By: Vic Roy
Date: Thursday, 2 February 2006, at 9:40 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Flybridge Enclosures (John D)

John - I'd advise against stainless tubing for the hard top. The stuff is just too brittle for the beating the B31 takes. Go with aluminum. I've been around a lot of boats with half and full towers over the years, and everyone that had a stainless one hated it, cracks everywhere.

As a point of reference, the Pipewelders half tower on AJ cost the prior Steward 10K installed with a 3 sided enclosure and electronics box in 1991. Not ever a crack in any weld, altho the pipes under the canvas laced top over it have some corrosion spots when I assumed Stewardship in about 93. I stopped the spread of it with CX.

Now the whack she took in Katrina busted some diagonal pipes off the stb front, but that is being fixed by the yard.

UV

Messages In This Thread

Flybridge Enclosures
JohnD -- Thursday, 2 February 2006, at 6:16 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
Doug Crowther -- Thursday, 2 February 2006, at 7:24 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
Vic Roy -- Thursday, 2 February 2006, at 8:08 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
John F. -- Thursday, 2 February 2006, at 8:43 p.m.

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Dan -- Friday, 3 February 2006, at 7:15 a.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
John D -- Thursday, 2 February 2006, at 9:16 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
steve -- Thursday, 2 February 2006, at 7:55 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
John D -- Thursday, 2 February 2006, at 9:21 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
Vic Roy -- Thursday, 2 February 2006, at 9:40 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
John D -- Friday, 3 February 2006, at 12:06 a.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
Doug Crowther -- Friday, 3 February 2006, at 12:31 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
Vic Roy -- Friday, 3 February 2006, at 1:57 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
Vic Roy -- Friday, 3 February 2006, at 2:32 p.m.

Re: Flybridge Enclosures
Doug Crowther -- Friday, 3 February 2006, at 4:56 p.m.