Deck Replacement, superstructure

[stickytoria2002]

Hi I need to replace a deck of a princess 435 1988, Is there anywhere I can buy the superstructure of the back deck already made. The previous owner replaced the deck with soft wood, and has not kept to the origonal curvature of the boat. Is there a way I can work out the original curvature from the rest of the boat or would the whole thing need replacing, If so where can I obtain the plans or buy the structure already made I just fit it.

 

[petem]

Find someone else with the same boat and measure their's is gonna be the only way.

 

[Divemaster1]

Are you saying that previous owner removed the fibreglass structure of the aft deck, or that the original teak (or mock-wood) layer on top of the fibreglass structure was replaced with soft wood ??

 

[jfm]

Your post doesn't explain the problem very well, or I'm not understanding it

When you say "original curvature", do you mean the crown in the deck? You can guess that - 10mm will be fine

You wont be able to buy the deck assembly ready made; you'll have to make it. But if you only want to introduce crown to an existing good subframe, you can add strips to the subframe to create the crown, then re-deck it