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As long as you can get underneath the deck to install backing plates and fit the nuts.

Get it warm enough and you'll have no further problems. Abrade the inside of the hose as well if you like.

Burgess Wood Sealer. Developed specifically for boats and now very popular for garden furniture.

Warm the pipe end in hot water to soften it. At this time of year the cold weather makes hoses rock hard.

Clean off all the paint where the sealant is to go. Roughen the ply surface where the sealant will be applied. Then paint the areas...

Nowadays the inside layer is usually a polymeric substance which works as well as lead. You will definitely need the plastic washer...

Wilks (now called Flexiteek) make all types of rub rails. Worth asking them if they will send it. Be warned though, shipping from the UK...

Open in preview (or the Windows equivalent) and resize the pic.

I believe it was both, but I take your point on the exhaust tubing which can be treated in the same way.

The boat you have built or rebuilt yourself is the one for lowest and easiest maintenance as it was built with this in mind. Unlike all...

If I was going to water-cool heater trunking I wouldn't bother to install a heater! Box in the trunking with ply and stuff the boxes...

Pigmented epoxy resin.

You could just drill through the two tubes, install a tube inside each and bolt through both tubes. That would be an easy DIY solution...

Fit the sender into the cap in the same manner as you would fit it in the tank top. Simples!

Try the wanted section.