hull / cap ? / liner / deck floor

[MarkG]

This is mainly a question for Trayder :

After the inspirational photos in the convenient mold creation / glassing process I went back to look at all the work he has done his boat.

I am confused from the pictures :

1) There is a hull - all laminate

2) There is an inner liner which sits on top of the stringer system and effectively allows for a removable floor or a decking system separate from the inner liner itself.

3) There is the deck floor

When looking at Trayder's pictures after the deck floor and inner liner are removed - there is still a deck cap or something basically representing the gunwale of the boat - how is this attached?

I was under the impression this component would be part of the inner liner ?

Is the seacraft built as a four part boat and if so what is the order of attachment at the joining point and how are they attached? Glassed or screwed?

That cap really does not make sense to me and it is getting on my nerves at the moment with the frustration.

Many thanks for any help

Regards,

[Trayder]

Mark-

The 20 SeaCraft is a 2 piece boat. The hull and stringers are 1 and the inner linner which has the deck cap and deck built in are 2. The innerliner is set onto the hull stringers and then screwed together at the rubrail part and bonded together between the stringers and under deck.

I took a skill saw to the inner liner. I cut a straight line 5 inches below the top of the deck cap and went all the way around the boat. I then discarded everything below the 5 inches. This left me the deck cap section.

I will glass the deck cap to the hullon the inside and I have added under deck cap stringers to stiffen it up, to the point it can be waled on. about a stringer every 3 feet and coring material inbetween.

When finished I will have turned a 2 piece boat into a 3 piece boat as I will be adding a new single layer deck that will sit on top of the new stringers and attach to the inner hull sides.

If I can clear anything else up please ask. I am currently neck deep in the project and am preparing to put the composie deck on.

Jason

[Mark]

I actually found an additional, probably unintentional piece of useful info in the molding photos - I can show my wife that I'm not the only person with a sizeable rod/reel collection! Nice quiver there.

[MarkG]

Trayder - thanks you answered my question.

I thought you had cut the inner liner out but the pictures show some very very straight lines and that's why I thought it was a factory deck cap and not something you had done. It looked like the inner liner had been removed and can be re-attached which was not making sense.

It is very clear now - cannot wait to see the additional photos.

The combination of your text and the photos reduces the learning curve a great deal - thanks for the information

rgds