Headlinings

[Wansworth]

Potential purchase of small yacht on hold as wife doesn’t like odd shiney headlining.Wa thinking of taking down and possibly glueing thin batterns direct to the GRP then say four mil ply fixed to them but what non toxic adhesive would be effective

 

[LittleSister]

The disadvantage of battens is it reduces headroom a little, which may or may not be critical.

If you can fit a sheet of ply to the cabin roof*, then why not fit it direct to it, using e.g. Velcro strips?

*If, as is often the case, the cabin roof is curves both fore-and-aft and side-to-side then you won't be able to use a single flat sheet of ply. The area will have to be broken into separate planks or sections to accommodate the curves.

 

[dsw]

Potential purchase of small yacht on hold as wife doesn’t like odd shiney headlining.Wa thinking of taking down and possibly glueing thin batterns direct to the GRP then say four mil ply fixed to them but what non toxic adhesive would be effective

pink grip made by evostick works very well for sticking wood to fiberglass and
it dose not cost a fortune. re done mine with it .

 

[Wansworth]

The disadvantage of battens is it reduces headroom a little, which may or may not be critical.

If you can fit a sheet of ply to the cabin roof*, then why not fit it direct to it, using e.g. Velcro strips?

*If, as is often the case, the cabin roof is curves both fore-and-aft and side-to-side then you won't be able to use a single flat sheet of ply. The area will have to be broken into separate planks or sections to accommodate the curves.

Going to have another look and assess what can be done.I imagine it doing wide strips hence the fixing of batterns athwart ship or maybe use some of that plastic with tand g

 

[garymalmgren]

Sorry , DSW, What is pink grip?
That job looks great

 

[Seashoreman]

Sorry , DSW, What is pink grip?
That job looks great

https://www.screwfix.com/c/sealants-adhesives/grab-adhesives/cat850076?brand=everbuild
It appears to be pink grab adhesive, as per link.

 

[ashtead]

Curious as to what is current shiny headlining ? I assume panelling of some sort but why will new vinyl or such not fix to panels? Or is there currently no headlining at all? I would have thought any car headlining adhesive spray would work to stick on -the challenge is fitting without bubbles unless you have panels of ply which can then be screwed into the batons and capped off. We replaced our bow cabin panels by taking home and fixing new lining to these.

 

[Wansworth]

Curious as to what is current shiny headlining ? I assume panelling of some sort but why will new vinyl or such not fix to panels? Or is there currently no headlining at all? I would have thought any car headlining adhesive spray would work to stick on -the challenge is fitting without bubbles unless you have panels of ply which can then be screwed into the batons and capped off. We replaced our bow cabin panels by taking home and fixing new lining to these.

It looks like some sort of padded insulation material

 

[PCUK]

Battens and panels are the right way to do it. I'd use CT1. When covering the panels vinyl floor covering adhesive is good as it is water based so not toxic and allows some time for adjustment. Vinyl flooring itself is also an excellent covering.

 

[Poignard]

My Twister had 3mm plywood screwed to battens fixed to the deckhead with some kind of thick adhesive [like Sikaflex] but this was beginning to fail so I re-secured the battens with thickened epoxy.

 

[doug748]

As PCUK, I have been experimenting with CT1 - good results so far.

I am also going to have a go with external pads, for things like sprayhood attachments, rather than drilling the fabric of the boat.

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[justanothersailboat]

Brand names can be more localised than products... but the stuff I had best success with for ceiling battens was "power grab 'n' bond", which is like super thick rapid-grab sikaflex. The thickness seems to be helpful. Since then I recommended it to someone else who also had success with it.

I used 4mm birch for my boat ceiling, same plan you describe, happy with the result. (if you have a deck fitting leak you know about it rather quickly by dark patches, but it recovers ok when it dries out)

 

[Dellquay13]

It looks like some sort of padded insulation material

Silver bubble wrap?

 

[Wansworth]

Silver bubble wrap?

Not quite ,certainly not very elegant