wrote:

Hi, Bruce.
My experience with rubrails is the Tempo brand "gunnel guard" model 660
. Comes in half or quarter round , and as I remember It is about $5.50
per foot and an 8 foot sabot needed 22' to go all around. I'm certain
Caribe will be your only source for it and by the way, it's Hypalon, a
DuPont product, not haplon....
Rubstrake from Wefco Rubber in California might be a possibility. 310
393 0303.It won't be cheaper .
Regards,
Capt. Mack

www.gosailnow.com


If you guys are talking about softening dinghy gunnels, has anyone ever
tried splitting a plastic pipe or some such material for the same
purpose? Seems CPVC for example would work well for the same purpose and
be a hell of alot cheaper than hypalon. Maybe polypipe would be better.

Stephen

Stephen

I have a fiberglass 8" dinghy. To soften the gunwales, I used the foam
pipe insulation available at the loval home depot, split it and put
over the tops of the gunwales. Then I covered the whole thing with
with split firehose. I got the hose for free form a place that does
hydrostatic testing. They throw out the hoses that faiol the test.

They make a fine covering. They are kind to the mothership topsides
but very tough and abrasion resistant.

Matt