Help on Fabricating Rubrail

[Barry Smoger]

Just bought a 1960 Dickerson 32 Ketch which needs a rubrail. There is nothing there now. Thinking of wood with brass. Anyone know what is appropriate on these? Any sources or resources? Open to suggestions. Allergic to vinyl on wooden boats.

[D]

have you tried Gemlux or Bo'sun? You may want to consider bronze bang iron--looks nice.

[Dale Genther]

My Dickerson had a brass rubrail on the wood. Similiar brass rubrail material is available in various sizes from Jamestown distributers.

[Ian McColgin]

Grana has an ss strip on the wooden rubrail and I am of two minds about it. It protects the paint in a very light bump. But we caught a bad current going through a bridge with only 11' horizontal clearance. Grana is 10' beam so there was not room to deploy fenders. Dented the ss in, pulled up a couple of the screws holding it in place, etc etc.

I am now of the opinion that when I rebuild and and replacing that rail anyway, I will finish the outside either with an industrial strength rubber strip or a sacrificial wood strip that is not painted.

Grana is 20t. I think that ss or bronze partround strip is good for lighter boats.

[Thaddeus J. Van Gilder]

Is that one of the crossplanked bottom 32's?

I worked on one a long time ago... The are pretty boats for a single chine boat!