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willy
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Initially Posted - 09/02/2003 : 12:30:29

Folks,
Edgy is kept in the Northern part of the mid-Atlantic states and boy do we have a tide! Tying the boat properly is an acquired skill and while I have gotten pretty good at it over the years, I am currently in a slip that is just a little too narrow for my beaminess. It's at the end of the pier and I just don't want to give up the privacy, those sunset views, and the easy access to the cockpit. Because of this I have added preformed bumper strips to a couple of pilings and have a couple of fenders lashed tight to another one. Where the boat hits the fenders, it has popped out about 8" of the rubber in my rub rail and I am wondering... does anyone have a good solution for getting this reinserted? It is extremely hard to do bare handed and I am afraid that using a rubber mallet would just close the grooves so that it would never get back in.
Willy

Edgy, WB#655
Rehoboth Bay, DE

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 09/02/2003 : 12:54:59

This past spring I had a couple of areas where the rubrail had popped out and I think I used a dull putty knife or something similar to carefully tuck the rubrail back into it's groove.

This was on my C25...I don't know if this would work on a C250's rubrail since I haven't seen one up close.

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Bryan Beamer
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Response Posted - 09/02/2003 : 13:52:55

I've used the method Don described on my C250 it will work just fine.

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sdaly66
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Response Posted - 09/02/2003 : 15:28:50

Just bought my 1996 250 a few weeks ago. I encountered the rub rail pop-out the following week. It was pretty bad (a "U" about 6 inches high). I took out the screw at the near end of the rail, pulled it tight, then used my hands and a rubber mallet to gently tap it all back in. Don't know what the effect will be of pulling it tight and cutting a couple of inches off, but for now, at least it looks good. I put the screw back into the original rail hole after cutting a new hole in the rubber rail.

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