Outward Flange Repair

[jnlazar007]

So I’m restoring a 1950’s no name fiberglass runabout. I started stripping the boat down because of a horribly botched paint job. Somebody had rebuilt the transom to accommodate a long shaft outboard. The boat was free so I didn’t look to hard at it before I hooked up to the trailer and took it home. The rub rail was already missing. So stripping it down to start stripping paint was easy. I started painting on the aircraft stripper and noticed the outward flange look off. By off it looked short. I walked around inspecting the flange and it appears that somebody sawed the flange edge off sawing right through the rivets. Like cutting the crust off of my kids pb and j. Thinking about using some pvc quarter round on top and bottom of what’s left of the flange and then glassing over that. Any thoughts?

 

[jbcurt00]

Pix always help find viable solutions, even a cell phone pix of a hand drawn rendering of what you've got and what you're thinking of as a "repair"

Is this the same free boat you posted back in Sept?
https://forums.iboats.com/forum/boat...-boat-repairer

In the pix posted there, it looks like the flange is mostly intact. There should be a flange on both the lower hull and the upper hull. Doesnt look missing in the few pix posted.

There should be a U shaped rubrail slipped over the edge of the flange, sort of like a cars door edge molding slips on to the doors edge to prevent nicks and dings along the doors edge when opened into an adjacent parked car or a masonry wall (like the 1 that my admiral either parks WAY too close or way too far from....)

Its less common, but used often enough on vintage boats. Doesn't require an aluminum channel and then a vinyl rubrail insert. So cheaper to make and less labor to install.....

Post more pix.

You can also continue posting the details and questions in the previous topic if you want. Assuming its the same boat

 

[jnlazar007]

I haven’t seen a U shaped rail that isn’t too deep to really grab. All I have seen are like 1 inch. And yes it is the same boat. Finally got around to working on it. Wife asked what I wanted to do for Father’s Day. I said play with the boat!

 

[Woodonglass]

You're prolly gunna have to fabricate something your self. Use some boat bumper like this...

and cut off the mounting tabs and glue the rubber railing on