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Dave Laux
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Initially Posted - 06/16/2004 :  22:14:23  Show Profile
Last year about this time I took a couple of tubes of latex plus silicone house caulk and filled the gap between the bottom of the rubrail and the hull. I first brushed and pressure washed the crud out of the crack. On our 1987 boat that was a gap about 3/16 to 1/4 wide and about the same deep. I brought the boat into the shop last weekend to clean it up for this year and was amazed at how much cleaner the topsides were with out the crud falling out of the crack and the spiders and so forth living in there. Cheap, easy, and effective. Dave
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Response Posted - 06/16/2004 :  23:39:13  Show Profile
Dave,

What about the same gap on the top of the rubrail?
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Dave Laux
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Response Posted - 06/17/2004 :  07:20:03  Show Profile
Mine has no gap on top. The alunimum fits tight to the hull. Dave
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Response Posted - 06/17/2004 :  21:31:27  Show Profile
Dave,

I ask this because if you've made the bottom of the rubrail watertight, then where does the water that does make its way in from the top go?
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Response Posted - 06/22/2004 :  23:26:44  Show Profile
Good question, Steve. That is a major (and hard-to-correct) point of infiltration for water into the cabin. I have often thought of caulking the TOP of the rubrail, but never the bottom. I haven't, because every time I was about to start, there was something else that need to be done more urgently. Besides, I was dubious it would solve the infiltration problem. Anyone else have any experience with this problem?
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