On Jul 20, 5:12*pm, "Happy" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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I was wondering abotu using salt-treated plywood on the Marquis deck.
I'm not a feared of paying for marine grade, but Jimmy the carpenter
told me that the newer salt treated woods are about as worthy as
marine grade at a fraction of the cost. So, what's the opinion?

I'm even wondering abotu using hybrid decking like you'd use on a
porch. synthetic mylar etc mixed with wood. The stuff is weather
resistant as all get out!

Tim a real good grade of plywood will work fine just give it a coat or 2 of
epoxy resin to seal it, regardless of what you use and by all means if you
go with treated use only stainless steel fasteners or the new treated wood
will eat the fasteners in short order.

I think you can use acetone to thin your first coat of epoxy so it will
penatrate well. I'm sure thers info on this subject at Iboats

I've been looking and studying. There's a guy on there that is re-
doing a cuddy (I forget what make) which is identical (almost) to my
Marquis. Come to think of it there's two makes on iboats in the
restore dept that are so close to mine that you could swear they were
punched out of the same place.


Maybe they were.