fanakaman
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Has anyone experience of replacing a ply deck with steel? Phanakapan and I have a 36ft steel Van de Stadt sloop. The deck hull join has failed and the deck ply is rotten. We can replace the deck with ply but we are considering steel.
We are thinking ... take a template from the existing ply sections.... have a steel fabricators make similar in steel... 2.5mm thickness then employ a welder to weld for us or buy welding gear and learn the welding art.
Any thoughts, ideas or pointers to the literature?
cheers
We are thinking ... take a template from the existing ply sections.... have a steel fabricators make similar in steel... 2.5mm thickness then employ a welder to weld for us or buy welding gear and learn the welding art.
Any thoughts, ideas or pointers to the literature?
cheers