Interesting. I replaced teak rails with stainless on a J30 a few years ago. It had over/under handrails. We kept the teak rails underneath. Over/under rails add a level of complexity when replacing with stainless. It's important to plan how you do it.
Sent the old capintop rails to Whitewater Marine along with an estimate of the longitudinal crown in the cabintop. I think the crown was around 2 inches. That curvature has to be manufacted into the stainless rails. They don't bend much. Whitewater made nice stainless rails from the patterns. While the new SS rails were being fabricated, I overbored and filled the old holes in the cabintop. I also epoxy filled the old fastener holes in the lower teak handrails. Then I plugged the fastener holes in the underneath handrails. I epoxied plugs in the holes. Essentially, I made the underneath handrails whole again. When the SS rails came in, I placed them on the cabintop and drew a circle around each of the mounting feet. Using a washer, I then drew the centers and drilled the new mounting holes. I oversized them a bit to allow for some tilt and slop. With a buddy holding the lower handrails in place, I drilled a small shallow hole in one of the END feet of the lower rail from above. We then drilled that hole fully trying to align it to the old hole which I'd filled. We used a small bit to drill a pilot hole because we were drilling through the small epoxy plug in the rail. Once we drilled the pilot hole, we re-drilled to the correct size. I then drilled the countersink for the plug. Installed the stainless and underneath handrails with a fastener in that first hole. We then offset the SS rail abit and repeated the process for the other end of the handrails. Once the handrails were drilled at each end, we held the underneath rail in place with the end fasteners in it and marked the intermediate holes with a shallow drill hole. We then drilled the intermediate holes in the underneath rail. Between the slightly oversize holes in the cabintop and the flexibility of the teak rails underneath, the holes lined up fairly well and the whole thing went back together. Some of the new plugs in the teak rail were slightly off from the original holes but that was only noticeable if you looked closely. Who examines overhead handrails that closely anyway? Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Chuck S via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Found this handrail project w pictures. as some interesting ideas. > http://dan.pfeiffer.net/10m/handrails.htm > > Chuck > Resolute > 1990 C&C 34R > Broad Creek, Magothy River, Md > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of > page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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