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Mounting deck to hull

Posted By: Tom Annulli
Date: Tuesday, 9 May 2006, at 10:27 a.m.

Faithfull:

My fishing buddy/fiberglass man -- boy it is nice to have one of them -- seems to have stumbled onto an interesting method to attach the three piece deck he is vacumbagging right now to my B31 hull.

While he was in Florida he ran across this company and one of the items they make is a preformed 90 degree piece that you tab to your hull and then you mount the outer pieces of the deck to this -- you can glass, mechanically attach with fasteners, etc. It comes in four foot long sections, is 100% rotproof and it weighs nothing and is strong as hell.

Unfortunately, there is not a picture on their website below, but they sent us a sample and it is perfect for the application. The coolest thing -- you tell them what make model and size boat and they will fabricate the bends etc to that hull.

Take a look at their site as they have all kinds of composite materials such as stringers, etc.

Just as an fyi, we vacumbagged laminated fiberglass I beams out of 500 cell core over the weekend. These will be used to support the deck over the fuel tank. We are glassing in stainless steel strips with nuts welded to them so that we can through bolt the cent deck piece to the out deck pieces.

Just thought you might find this company useful.

Tom

http://www.preforms.com

Messages In This Thread

Mounting deck to hull
Tom Annulli -- Tuesday, 9 May 2006, at 10:27 a.m.

Re: Mounting deck to hull *LINK*
Capt. Dave Kosh -- Tuesday, 9 May 2006, at 3:05 p.m.