Hi all, our N30C (hull 40) had teak toe rails. They were mounted by wood screws on top of the thru-bolts for the deck to hull connection. They were high maintenance and more importantly, they leaked. Mike Quill had/has(?) a stock of aluminum rails. I bought some and installed them with 5200 and thru bolts. Kind of a massive job, but in the end…maintenance free and DRY.
Bill Salton, Bonheur, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON.
Looks really nice!
– Bob
WOW! That is NIIIIICCCCEEEE!!!
Previous owner on my boat removed all teak. The boat spend time down the island and the story goes, “just too much maintenance for a charter boat!”
But- I’m digging that accent trim. Did you shoot a YouTube video on the “how -to”?? Thanks for sharing… well done!
Thanks! The accent trim on the coach roof? The previous owners removed the teak and painted a blue stripe. It does look good and is easy to care for.
I should have documented the process for the toe rail…but I didn’t. I was on a bit of a time window and had two people helping me. (Wife Jill was one of them and we are still married!) if I had a fourth or more time, I could have documented more
Bill, did you have to use a rail bender to get the right curve. Thx.
Actually I didn’t. I just followed the curve and also the outline of the teak toe rail. The curve looks impossible to make, but it isn’t. We dry fit it, bolt by bolt. You need the better part of two rails per side. We positioned the joint at the mid-ship fairlead.
Looks great! But why oh why weren’t the life line bases not put on the rail instead of the deck?
RonB.
26U/Pender Harbour,BC.
That’s a good question…oversight I guess!
There was a N30C up for sale at Noank a few years back where the PO replaced the cap rail with aluminum I think and mounted the stancions on it after recoring the decks. It added a lot of room to the decks.
Brian Cayer
My comment wasn’t a criticism about this beautiful installation, just to be clear. On my 26 they really eat into the space available. A project in the future!
Hi RonB, I didn’t take that as criticism! I actually didn’t consider it, but it would have been a good time to do it for sure.
