Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

[Guest]

Is there N inflatable floor I can put into my zoom 350? I can't take the wooden floor no more. I don't care about walking on my boat and have no problems fishing sitting down nor do I care about performance loss!

 

[Sea Rider]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

Weimed,

The only tech alternative left would be to install a custom air deck. The issue won't be able to place a chair and wife will get mad at you, but still can throw chair overboard and sit confy on top air deck. If Zodiac has an air deck 350 to swap, expect to be much pricier than same size wooden or alum panel decks.

This weight hassle is part of boating life, everyone of us has gone through it, till all have moved to a trailer, this facilitates the constant need to assemble, pump up, disassemble sib everytime it's used. A pity you don't have a proper place to park trailer, sib, engine, right ?

Happy Boating

 

[Guest]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

Weimed,

The only tech alternative left would be to install a custom air deck. The issue won't be able to place a chair and wife will get mad at you, but still can throw chair overboard and sit confy on top air deck. If Zodiac has an air deck 350 to swap, expect to be much pricier than same size wooden or alum panel decks.

This weight hassle is part of boating life, everyone of us has gone through it, till all have moved to a trailer, this facilitates the constant need to assemble, pump up, disassemble sib everytime it's used. A pity you don't have a proper place to park trailer, sib, engine, right ?

Happy Boating

I'm just frustrated with these board holders. As I blew up the boat they sprung out fast could have hurt me and they so not stay in place no matter what I do, not on that but it ripped a little bit of material off the bottom where the aluminum touched the boat. I can't use the stock floor board holders they do not mount to the floor board and when u blow up the boat they shoot out very bad thing I will also leave a negative review about it. I almost got hurt watched the video of setup about 30 times and pauses on every time the guy put each board in

 

[Sea Rider]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

To understand your sib model deck, how many side joiners do you have ? Are they wooden, plastic or alum made ? If the side joiners are popping out when sib is being pumped up, there's someting you are doing wrong. Can you post pics of the board holders, don't get if they are stringers or side joiners

Follow assembling procedures :

1-Place sib completely deflated on a clean flat surface with valves wide opened.

2-Installl all floarboards, follow precise assembly order sequence,

3-All floorboards laterals must be properly aligned one after the other, so to fit evenly inside joiner's middle groove.

4-Place both oars under floor fabric, each one next to tubes so floor raises a bit from bottom lower fabric.

5-Apply soappy water to side joiner's groove.

6-The flat portion of side joiners must facer lower deck fabric, joiners must rest in middle tubes, if floorboards have side grooives at both sides, then in middle of them.

7-Pull middle tubes out, place joiners groove against floorboards sides and rotate joiners so quickly snaps in.

8-In a merry go round, proceede to inflate al tubes evenly, if tubes are not correctly inflated while boating, could cause joiners to pop out, probably not your case.

Note: Have very good assembling results applying soappy water to lower bottom fabric contour and all floarboards contours as well, floor panels will slide & align much better inside sib's floor when pumping up.

Boating frustration is due to floor overall heavy weight or just assembling issues ? If both, we can work something like this with prior manufacturer tech consultation...

Happy Boating

 

[Guest]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

To understand your sib model deck, how many side joiners do you have ? Are they wooden, plastic or alum made ? If the side joiners are popping out when sib is being pumped up, there's someting you are doing wrong. Can you post pics of the board holders, don't get if they are stringers or side joiners

Follow assembling procedures :

1-Place sib completely deflated on a clean flat surface with valves wide opened.

2-Installl all floarboards, follow precise assembly order sequence,

3-All floorboards laterals must be properly aligned one after the other, so to fit evenly inside joiner's middle groove.

4-Place both oars under floor fabric, each one next to tubes so floor raises a bit from bottom lower fabric.

5-Apply soappy water to side joiner's groove.

6-The flat portion of side joiners must facer lower deck fabric, joiners must rest in middle tubes, if floorboards have side grooives at both sides, then in middle of them.

7-Pull middle tubes out, place joiners groove against floorboards sides and rotate joiners so quickly snaps in.

8-In a merry go round, proceede to inflate al tubes evenly, if tubes are not correctly inflated while boating, could cause joiners to pop out, probably not your case.

Note: Have very good assembling results applying soappy water to lower bottom fabric contour and all floarboards contours as well, floor panels will slide & align much better inside sib's floor when pumping up.

Boating frustration is due to floor overall heavy weight or just assembling issues ? If both, we can work something like this with prior manufacturer tech consultation...

Happy Boating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqsCxFKi_8 same connector, the way he put in the floor board connectors is bs I did it the same way and once I pumped it up it shot out at me during inflation not to mention he only put 2 in and I have 6. the way he picks up the floor boards once connected in the boat is BS unless he is Hercules. Is that an inflatable floor board and if it is that's exactly what need!!!!! hope its not to pricey, my biggest concern is the sharp edges (where each floor board connects to each other scraping material off the side of the boat) I think I will buy rubber pipes similar to antifreeze hose and run it across all the sharp edges and use It as connectors.

 

[Sea Rider]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

Weimed,

Checked the Zodiac video, that's a Typoon 310 sib, not a 350 Zoom, anyway the 310 seems to have very short side joiners. Don't have down here Zoom models, to understand your last post : does your wooden panel boards use H front Joiners between them when assembling floor, or it's same wooden panel floarboards with front alum rail as seen in video ? Don't get it having six of them ? A pic of them would be ideal.

Previous pics corresponds to a custom air deck, replaces wooden or alum floarboards. Costs around $ 180-200 FOB + shipping, a template with Zoom's 350 deck measures is required to custom build one.

Happy Boating

 

[Guest]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

Weimed,

Checked the Zodiac video, that's a Typoon 310 sib, not a 350 Zoom, anyway the 310 seems to have very short side joiners. Don't have down here Zoom models, to understand your last post : does your wooden panel boards use H front Joiners between them when assembling floor, or it's same wooden panel floarboards with front alum rail as seen in video ? Don't get it having six of them ? A pic of them would be ideal.

Previous pics corresponds to a custom air deck, replaces wooden or alum floarboards. Costs around $ 180-200 FOB + shipping, a template with Zoom's 350 deck measures is required to custom build one.

Happy Boating

i know it was a typhoon but my boat does not have the H connectors it has the aluminum rail. I am the worst at measurements.

 

[Sinistre1]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

The H connectors are aluminum. They are small aluminum "rods" with a groove in each side, looks like this H but lay the H down on it's side -----> )=( <----- in this picture the lines and arrow each represent a floorboard and they insert into the H channel )=( which locks them together by friction/ mechanical movement. You SHOULD have 2 big, long aluminum rails between 3 and 5 feet long and 3-5 smaller aluminum rails (these are the H channels). Your boat may be different. My quicksilver has the 2 big rails and 4 smaller H rails for the wood floor. That's kinda why i was hoping you'd be bringing your boat along on Sunday as it would allow me to help you with the setting up process and see what things can be done differently.

We might have been able to see if either of the inflatable floors I have will fit (well) in your boat, then you would know without having to take a chance on custom, or you would know you likely DO need custom, either way, you would know if an airfloor is in your future.

 

[Guest]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

The H connectors are aluminum. They are small aluminum "rods" with a groove in each side, looks like this H but lay the H down on it's side -----> )=( <----- in this picture the lines and arrow each represent a floorboard and they insert into the H channel )=( which locks them together by friction/ mechanical movement. You SHOULD have 2 big, long aluminum rails between 3 and 5 feet long and 3-5 smaller aluminum rails (these are the H channels). Your boat may be different. My quicksilver has the 2 big rails and 4 smaller H rails for the wood floor. That's kinda why i was hoping you'd be bringing your boat along on Sunday as it would allow me to help you with the setting up process and see what things can be done differently.

We might have been able to see if either of the inflatable floors I have will fit (well) in your boat, then you would know without having to take a chance on custom, or you would know you likely DO need custom, either way, you would know if an airfloor is in your future.

Oh yes, my boat is in my trunk all times (call it down for what ever whenever) that's ny boat storage till seasons over then I wil empty out a closet for it. So yes we can check it out togather. That would be great

 

[Sinistre1]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

Ok. Will bring both air floors to see if one might fit! Running off to work OT. Late.... Rough but fun night, lol.

 

[Guest]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

Ok. Will bring both air floors to see if one might fit! Running off to work OT. Late.... Rough but fun night, lol.

have fun at work.

 

[Sea Rider]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

Weimed,

Read that you are planing buying a Saturn air deck, bear in mind that Saturn has nose type bows that are totally incompatible to rhomboid shaped Zoom bows, on the other hand, there isn't a proper size to match your current 350 model. A 330 air deck is too short, will rock back and forth, will leave a big portion of uncovered bottom fabric at bow as to protect it. A 365 is too long, won't fit inside. If possible try one before investing blindly and throwing money down the drain. For a perfect fit will need a custom air deck and to build one probably will be too much tech hassle.

Happy Boating.

 

[Guest]

Re: Zoom 350, rid that wooden floor!

Weimed,

Read that you are planing buying a Saturn air deck, bear in mind that Saturn has nose type bows that are totally incompatible to rhomboid shaped Zoom bows, on the other hand, there isn't a proper size to match your current 350 model. A 330 air deck is too short, will rock back and forth, will leave a big portion of uncovered bottom fabric at bow as to protect it. A 365 is too long, won't fit inside. If possible try one before investing blindly and throwing money down the drain. For a perfect fit will need a custom air deck and to build one probably will be too much tech hassle.

Happy Boating.

Oh I already did. Sinistre has the air floor we put it in. Actually IF you look at the Jamaica bay meet thread that 365 floor is in my boat. It fits pretty well that's the only reason I'm really thinking about it