Dynel finish on decks - coamings and bulwarks

[Andrew S/Y Rocquette]

Advice required please!

We are shortly to begin re-covering Rocquette's double laminated ply decks with dynel/epoxy. When built, the ply decks had no sheer plank, and the bulwarks are built up over them. Three not-so-useful pictures of Rocquette to give you the idea (ish)!
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We have lifted off the bulwarks and are making repairs to the deck surface (including along the sheer where the end-grain of the ply was more than a bit dodgy!). 2 questions:

1) Where the dynel runs over the deck edge, how would you finish it? Down on the hull a centimetre or so, or trim flush with the sheer line? The bulwarks are going on top for around 2/3 of the hull length.

2) Around the hatches, coamings and doghouse - my plan was to run the dynel up a bit under a centimetre, and finish on the vertical service. Alternative is to but the dynel along the edge of the hatches, coaming and doghouse.

Thoughts and advice?

Cheers

Andrew

[ 02-27-2005, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: Andrew S/Y Rocquette ]

[BillyBudd]

Andrew, you could put my boat in a corner of your boat, so scale may be a factor in my comments. On hatches and such what I've done is run the fabric/epoxy up through a rounded fileted bend to be about 3/4" above the deck. Then there's plenty of vertical wood for a bright varnish finish. My small (20') boat doesn't have a bulwark so the fabric/epoxy was turned down over rounded ply and finished off with the rub rail as cover just beneath the sheer line. This doesn't work for you. I suspect others will give guidance more knowlingly than I can but...if you don't want to rebuild/reset your bulwark on the ply deck (and why not?), then you'll be needing something like Dolphinite/bedding compound at the fabric/epoxy & bulwark joint. For questionable advice: build up the bulwark and then put down the fabric and epoxy.

[Andrew S/Y Rocquette]

Cheers for the thoughts - appreciated!

Andrew