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Strip: footbrace install
By:c
Date: 12/2/2003, 1:18 pm

i have a question regaurding the footbrace installatin.

in my mid i always anticipated installing the footbraces before tht hull and deck were joined.

but i just test fitted the deck hull and located the footbrace rails and they fall directly on the sheerline. whick means that any mounting metode will be either covered by the seam tape, or have to wait until the hull and deck are joined. making it much more difficult to place the footbraces.

do you have any ideas?

when are the footbraces normally installed? befor or after the seam is joined.

i am thinking now that "through the hull" mounting bolts will be necessary.
can/should the braces be bolted to the deck instead, allowing the hardware to be "hidden in plain sight" as part of the rigging tiedowns?

thanks
chuck

Messages In This Thread

Strip: footbrace install
c -- 12/2/2003, 1:18 pm
Re: Strip: footbrace install *LINK* *Pic*
Richard Kohlström -- 12/3/2003, 11:51 am
Very Clean Boat Interior!!! Outrageous!
Bill Cruz -- 12/3/2003, 1:56 pm
Puts my hull interior to shame.
Robert N Pruden -- 12/4/2003, 1:00 am
Neutral Position?
Bill Cruz -- 12/4/2003, 10:23 am
Re: Neutral Position?
Robert N Pruden -- 12/4/2003, 5:47 pm
What's a rudder? *NM*
Bill Cruz -- 12/5/2003, 12:04 am
Re: Neutral Position?
Richard Kohlström -- 12/4/2003, 6:42 pm
Re: Puts my hull interior to shame.
Richard Kohlström -- 12/4/2003, 3:20 am
Re: Very Clean Boat Interior!!! Outrageous! *Pic*
Richard Kohlström -- 12/3/2003, 7:00 pm
Re: Very Clean Boat Interior!!! Outrageous!
Bill Cruz -- 12/4/2003, 10:17 am
Re: Very Clean Boat Interior!!! Outrageous!
Richard Kohlström -- 12/4/2003, 6:33 pm
Ahhhem.
Bill Cruz -- 12/5/2003, 12:02 am
Re: Ahhhem.
Richard Kohlström -- 12/5/2003, 6:19 am
Re: Ahhhem.
Bill Cruz -- 12/5/2003, 9:24 am
Re: Ahhhem.
Richard Kohlström -- 12/6/2003, 3:21 pm
Re: Ahhhem.
Bill Cruz -- 12/7/2003, 2:32 pm
Re: Ahhhem. *LINK* *Pic*
Richard Kohlström -- 12/7/2003, 7:34 pm
Good "Matbrod"
Bill Cruz -- 12/8/2003, 2:36 am
Agreed, very nice work guys *NM*
Chip Sandresky -- 12/3/2003, 7:45 pm
Re: Very Clean Boat Interior!!! Outrageous! *Pic*
Richard Kohlström -- 12/3/2003, 6:54 pm
Re: Nice!
Ketil Valle -- 12/4/2003, 2:38 am
Re: Nice!
Richard Kohlström -- 12/4/2003, 5:47 pm
I'm considering the same thing as you.
Bill Cruz -- 12/3/2003, 12:08 am
Re: I'm considering the same thing as you. *Pic*
Lennie Hawkins -- 12/3/2003, 11:02 am
Those are 'em!
Bill Cruz -- 12/3/2003, 2:07 pm
Re: Strip: footbrace install
Jay Babina -- 12/2/2003, 4:58 pm
Re: Strip: footbrace install -- shortening?
pikabike -- 12/3/2003, 11:04 pm
Re: Strip: footbrace install
Rod Tait -- 12/2/2003, 2:27 pm