Master Angler Help

Seacraft84 · #1 01-30-2010, 08:41 PM

I am looking at some 20' MA. My question is where the floor meets the side of the boat and where the carpet ends does the floor connect to the side of the boat or is it glassed to the side or is the gap filled in with something like 5200. One of the boats I looked at the lip was not connected to the side of the boat just below where the carpet ends. Looks like it was filled in with 5200 or something like that at one time. Thanks
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oldfielder · #2 01-31-2010, 04:00 PM

Sounds like something weird going on right there. Carpet? Separated deck? Can you get pix?

Seacraft84 · #3 01-31-2010, 04:11 PM

From what I have seen on the internet the 4 inch raised lip off the floor is seperate from the side of the actual hull and the gap is filled in with silicone. I will get a pic today.. Thanks

strick · #4 01-31-2010, 05:52 PM

trying to remember how they meet...Bigshrimpin would know he has tore apart a couple of those MA's send him a PM

strick

Michael Vezzosi · #5 01-31-2010, 07:45 PM

I thought that my 1979 MA was the only one carpeted inside. Figured it didn't add much wait but was an effective method of sound deadening. On mine, there is a grey in color, adhesive or caulk. May have been clear or white, at one time. All that I can offer, unless someone would like an emailed photo or two. Part II.

Seacraft84 · #6 02-01-2010, 12:20 AM

Thanks for the replys. I will get the pic up tomorrow evening.

lunasea17 · #7 02-01-2010, 04:09 PM

I believe all MA's from the 70's anyway had the carpet. Mine does. The lip below the carpet which is like a baseboard in a house makes redecking these boats a little different. Mine separated from the hull on the entire port side. I removed the deck and side lip. It is attached to a plywood cleat running the length of the hull from which it had separated. The deck to hull joint was filled with a putty of some type but it just separated also. This allows water coming down inside of hull or deck washdown etc to go into the core. A weak desighn in my mind. I will install my new deck flush to the side of the hull without the gutters.

lunasea17 · #8 02-01-2010, 06:14 PM

Just went out to the scrap heap and I'm mistaken. The plywood strip is glassed into the sole and side piece and the whole mess was bonded to the hull with resin chopped glass mix. This is what separated from the hull. I will post a picture if I can get it to work.

Seacraft84 · #9 02-01-2010, 11:53 PM

Thats is exactly what I was talking about. The one I was looking at and now told the guy tonight I will buy, had the gap between the the hull side and the lip that comes off the floor. I have heard they came from the factory like that but not for sure. This boat next winter is going to get a new floor, closed in transom, and bracket.. And like you said I am going to make my floor go straight to the hull side and smooth and fair out the sides of the boat.