Just finished installation of new rub rail

kamikaze · #1 06-01-2006, 09:39 PM

Hey everyone

I just finished my latest project. I pulled the old rub rail and repainted the cap and then installed a new rub rail that wasn't so tall. I think it's looking quite sharp for a 30 year old boat even if I do say so myself!

Kamikaze

macojoe · #2 06-01-2006, 10:35 PM

I am helping a buddy fix up a old Whaler, he just bought a new rub rail.

How did you get the rail to bend around the boat?? We are going to use a heat gun.

Any tricks you can share??

Skools Out · #3 06-02-2006, 12:13 AM

I always lay the rub rail out in the sun on a superhot day and then start to install after the rubrail gets hot. it goes on easier i've found.

kamikaze · #4 06-02-2006, 12:18 AM

Macjoe:

As a matter of fact I didn't even need to use a heat gun on the corners since its hotter than piss in Virgina right now. I think the small size of the rub rail made it much easier to work with as well. You will need a extra set of hands to stretch out the rub rail while you install to keep it nice and tight though.

Kamikaze

msbhammer · #5 06-02-2006, 12:24 AM

Sweet looking rub rail. Need to do mine someday. Dtupid question: You replaced the black rubber along with the red center or did you just add in th ered. The red looks sharp. What did it cost.
I noticed a few gaps where the rub rail had pulled away from the boat. I guess I just need longer screws to pull it back in ?

kamikaze · #6 06-02-2006, 12:36 AM

Msbhammer:

The black part is the rub rail into which the red part ( called the insert) is press into. Since I'm a cheap SOB by nature, the red insert is actually a 1/2 outside diameter red rubber hose I purchased from US Plastics for .59 a foot, so it ended up much cheaper than the colored inserts available from TACO and others. Actually I got a great deal on the rub rail to from Short's Marine for 15.99 for 50 feet (they have since sold out!)

Kamikaze

Blue_Runner · #7 06-02-2006, 01:47 AM

Kamakazi, you have now been declared MJ's hero (and mine too *;)) for getting something awesome done so cheap that no one would ever believe it. *Congrats on some nice work there!

Amazing what a nice looking rub-rail can do to a boat. It is the finishing touch in my opinion.

Blue

reelapeelin · #8 06-02-2006, 10:55 AM

Last year when I re-installed mine, I attached the middle of the rail to the bow first (that's what you're sposed to do anyway)...then kept tension on the ends w/ 2 ratchet-straps hooked to a wall behind the boat...made a one-person job of it...used a heat-gun on the turns, but careful, cause it would be REAL EASY to overheat the rubber...it doesn't take much...the old insert rope had gotten pretty nasty, so I found some new rope I liked to replace it...

shicks007 · #9 06-03-2006, 09:57 AM

Hey Kamikaze,

The boat looks great. Where in Va. do you live, I'm over in Yorktown?

macojoe · #10 06-03-2006, 11:29 AM

Thanks guys!!!

If I wait for the hot sun around here I might be waiting till next year!!

I will use a heat gun and go real slow!!

Thanks again!!