Rub Rail Hydrostream venus

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anyone know where to look for that crazy rub rail on hydrostreams.

[SCT]

Call Allen at Rubrail.com

[CUDA]

https://www.tacomarine.com/rub-rail

[tnelsmn]

The original aluminum style?

[R.I.P.]

Yes

[tnelsmn]

I don't believe you can buy that style anymore. I ended up having a local fab shop form some out of sheet metal. It looks the same from 5'. I've only had them do a prototype so far and haven't done the whole boat yet. The trick is going to be forming it around the hull. I could cut off a chunk and mail it to you so they could pull measurements if needed.

Original on the left, new on the right.

[CUDA]

Where there is will there's way

J channel

[CUDA]

https://eagle-aluminum.com/product/vinyl-rub-rail-channel/

[SCT]

You can’t buy direct from taco marine but I bought Taco rubrail for my old 69 CM project thru rubrail.com. Taco is the only place that I could find to match the original aluminum rail. Might be worth calling them.... One thing to watch out for is they can’t ship FX/UPS if the piece is longer than 10’ and truck freight is $$$.

[CUDA]

I believe they are at least 20' I use to drive to Miami with a trailer.

[nitro_rat]

The trick with the original style rail is that to install it properly you have to split the boat. It's riveted to the bottom of the hull from the top before the cap is put on. The rail was wrapped around from the front and down the sides, the cap was slid forward under the lip, then the parts that wrap up to the transom were riveted from the outside.

The rail is no longer produced, almost impossible to remove intact, and even more difficult to reinstall correctly. Unfortunately the black rubber stuff is the best replacement if your original is missing or damaged...

[R.I.P.]

Does the Rub rail offer any type of fastening the deck to the hull??

[Deznuts3570]

I know of a few people including me that used a 1/4 to 1/2 vinyl rubrail from McMaster Carr.

[Deznuts3570]

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[WavetoWave]

If you haven't found any yet, I've had luck with more obscure designs with these guys. https://www.integritymarinecorp.com/

[tnelsmn]

Does the Rub rail offer any type of fastening the deck to the hull??

Nope. Just there for looks. It's only secured to the hull.

[nitro_rat]

Nope. Just there for looks. It's only secured to the hull.

I beg to differ. On SOME boats, there is little more than the lip of the rail holding the top cap on. By design the hull and cap were supposed to be glassed together but it didn't always happen that way. Especially on Friday afternoons and Monday mornings. I will say the earlier boats that I have chopped up were much more sturdily built than the later ones.

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Here you can see the way the top lip of the rail wraps over the cap.

As far as replacement original style rail; the original dies went to John Spaeth in Canada (along with the dies for the windshield rail). After a period of time where no product was ordered the extrusion company scrapped the dies. Nobody is manufacturing a direct replacement.

It's not really plausible to replace in most cases as the boat has to be split to properly attach the original style rail.

[tnelsmn]

I stand corrected. I should say there's no mechanical connection. There was plenty of resin on the seam and glass on the inside holding the hull/deck on my Viking.

I plan to put my new sheet metal copy on after the new gel gets sprayed. The seam is plenty thick now after repairs. I could add some short(1/8") screws up from the hull, but I'm planning to use 5200 to hold it on. The black rubber stuff won't look right on my color scheme.

It's too bad the dies were scrapped. There could be a small market for new windshield frames. But there's not enough market to make new dies.

[R.I.P.]

so i could use a 1/2" c channel taco white rubber . Just looks soo much better