SPRAY RAILS

Bigshrimpin · #1 07-19-2005, 03:50 AM

Capt Jim - I might be able to send you a sample of the teak rails if it would help. I just removed them from my 20 (with stricks help) . . . I tried to save them for you (but it didn't work out - they were installed too well.)

captj2 · #2 07-19-2005, 12:28 PM

Bigshrimpin
Thanks for the thought in trying to save the rails. Your offering to send a section of the rail is generious but a tracing of the outline would serve as well. Most pictures I see of rails show them installed at the chine but would they be more effective if placed higher on the hull?

Thanks,
Jim Crosby

strick · #3 07-20-2005, 08:38 PM

Tim's was on the chine as shown in the pic above. I think thats a good place for it. Someone said that it softened the ride? so maybe you can get that out of it as well.

strick

Bigshrimpin · #4 07-20-2005, 11:38 PM

when strick was ripping off the rails . . . [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I noticed that the fiberglass is much thicker at the chine than two inches above . . . if you mounted them higher then I don't think your boat would hold up very long - unless the rails were very very flexible.

flash14 · #5 07-21-2005, 11:34 AM

My 23 has them on the chine as well. That is the correct placement for them because of the reinforced corners. The glass has at least 2 extra layers there. I have never installed them on a seacraft, but I have installed them on at least 5 other boats along the chine. Make sure when you soak the teak, that you are patient or else you will have a mess and a waste of a day setting up only to find the wood is not ready for you yet. Good Luck!