Does anyone know a wholesale source for the rub rail/strips that go around the outside of a caribe or any brand haplon dingy. I am restoring my 1999 10' caribe and I got a quote of over $300 just for just the material...not counting the install. Choke!!! Thanks in Advance Bruce
Hi, Bruce. My experience with rubrails is the Tempo brand "gunnel guard" model 660 . Comes in half or quarter round , and as I remember It is about $5.50 per foot and an 8 foot sabot needed 22' to go all around. I'm certain Caribe will be your only source for it and by the way, it's Hypalon, a DuPont product, not haplon.... Rubstrake from Wefco Rubber in California might be a possibility. 310 393 0303.It won't be cheaper . Regards, Capt. Mack captainmack@gosailnow.com www.gosailnow.com
Stephen Trapani 15 March 2005 08:17:17 [ permanent link ]
captainmack@gosailnow.com wrote:
Hi, Bruce.> My experience with rubrails is the Tempo brand "gunnel guard" model 660> . Comes in half or quarter round , and as I remember It is about $5.50> per foot and an 8 foot sabot needed 22' to go all around. I'm certain> Caribe will be your only source for it and by the way, it's Hypalon, a> DuPont product, not haplon....> Rubstrake from Wefco Rubber in California might be a possibility. 310> 393 0303.It won't be cheaper .> Regards,> Capt. Mack> captainmack@gosailnow.com> www.gosailnow.com>
If you guys are talking about softening dinghy gunnels, has anyone ever tried splitting a plastic pipe or some such material for the same purpose? Seems CPVC for example would work well for the same purpose and be a hell of alot cheaper than hypalon. Maybe polypipe would be better.
I have a fiberglass 8" dinghy. To soften the gunwales, I used the foam pipe insulation available at the loval home depot, split it and put over the tops of the gunwales. Then I covered the whole thing with with split firehose. I got the hose for free form a place that does hydrostatic testing. They throw out the hoses that faiol the test.
They make a fine covering. They are kind to the mothership topsides but very tough and abrasion resistant.
On 15 Mar 2005 06:51:41 -0800, matt@boatnerd.com said:
To soften the gunwales, I used the foam>pipe insulation available at the loval home depot, split it and put>over the tops of the gunwales. Then I covered the whole thing with>with split firehose.
Great idea. On my last dinghy I used pipe insulation secured by plastic electrical ties, but the fire hose covering would have been a great improvement.
