Removing rub rail?

[strick]

Those are some cool pics. Glad to finally see what ole Ed looks like.

Strick

[ScottM]

Glad to finally see what ole Ed looks like.

Yup, that's the man himself. The face on the left side of the pic is Seafari. The legs belong to me, and JohnR is in the denim shirt on Jim Curto's 20' MA. Not sure who's in the white t-shirt.

[Scott]

Jim Curto's 20' MA. Not sure who's in the white t-shirt.

Looked at some other pictures of Ed playing with the caulking gun [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] and saw that the "white T shirt" was Jim.

[Sleeto]

When I replaced the rub rail on my 20' I found that the rub rail screws were actually holding the deck and hull together. Most pop rivets had worked out and the bonding material was shot. It seems that the rivets were used only to tack the deck and hull together until the many dozens of rub rail screws were applied. I also used 5200 and new pop rivets.

I had tried many times to repair the original rail and finally replaced it with an all black, all plastic rail from TACO. It was a fairly easy job once the refastening was completed, and really looks great

[paulfurnari]

My '72 23' CC had a semi-rigid 2-1/2" black plastic rub rail with a black insert. It was screwed in every 6" under the insert. After removing that, the deck cap was screwed every 6" with pan head screws and the bonding material was intact. I replaced the pan heads with countersunk flat heads. Then installed a new 2-1/2" black semi-rigid rub rail from Barbour Plastics screwed every 6" with a 1" stainless steel insert and that was screwed every 6". All the screws go into the deck cap. It was a lot of work, its strong and really made the hull look complete. -PF

[Miles Offshore]

Great pix guys- and nice looking Mako there Ed !!!!!

[jetroc0088]

When I replaced the rub rail on my 20' I found that the rub rail screws were actually holding the deck and hull together. Most pop rivets had worked out and the bonding material was shot. It seems that the rivets were used only to tack the deck and hull together until the many dozens of rub rail screws were applied. I also used 5200 and new pop rivets.

I had tried many times to repair the original rail and finally replaced it with an all black, all plastic rail from TACO. It was a fairly easy job once the refastening was completed, and really looks great

This is exactly how mine is. I am going to clean it up and get it back together this weekend. I think I will need a lot of new rivits.

Thanks again for all the help.
Chris