Linking metal floors to ab=node

[owendo]

To link or not to Link?
What is the general opinion..

On a Wooden Yacht (East Anglian) new galvanised floors have been fitted this year. Should they be linked to-gether and then linked to the sacrificial anode?



Mike Woodhouse
Vertue V17

 

[mickshep]

Not good idea, see your PBO post. PM me if you want more info,
Mickshep

 

[Mirelle]

Not

Did mine last year, and did not, so I vote No.

Seriously, my reasoning is that I am more worried about expensive wood degrading due to alkali build up at the cathode than I am about the cheal steel floors rotting out again.

Next time they need doing I will do the job properly and fit bronze ones.

 

[EASLOOP]

Hi,
I too have an East Anglian. She is mahogony on oak and I recently have done some work on my floors. They weren't in all that bad shape so I cleaned them up and coated them in Cuprinol rust preventer and sealant then renewed all of the galvanized coach bolts. As the bold heads had damaged parts of the garboard strake, i.e. left rusty holes, I cleaned them up so they were sort of conical in shape and nice and clean; then filled the holes with West epoxy and buried the new bolt heads in to the stuff. When the epoxy had gone off completely I tightened down the bolts from inside the hull and evertything pulled in tight. However, If I have to do further work it will involve removing the keelson as the floors go under this; also some of the floors, esp. those close to the bilge, just seem to disappear into the keel ? Do your floors go under the keelson? If so did you have to break up the keelson to get at them (I think I would have to as everything seems to be secured with the most tenacious and hard of material I have ever seen.
Look forward to your reply.
Regards
John