Help Please

[ExSurveyor]

I am stumped,

Any ideas what this is officially called,

And

Where can I get some from.

The trim is aluminum, 30mm wide and the insert is 12mm. It appears to have been red originally but has faded to mucky white.

Ideally I only want the insert as the trim is rivetted on.

Thanks.

[WherryNice]

Erm, should there be a picture here?

[ExSurveyor]

16 minutes ago, WherryNice said:

Erm, should there be a picture here?

Well spotted,

[BroadAmbition]

These may have what you desire,

Griff

https://www.bridgerubber.com 

 

[WherryNice]

https://www.wilks.co.uk/marine.html

These people do a good range of fendering/rubbing strake and may have what you require.

[Smoggy]

seals direct?

[WherryNice]

One thing I have noticed with fendering suppliers is that they sometimes seem to be selling Wilks products under a different name but at a higher price than Wilks themselves.

[Davydine]

I was going to suggest Wilks but someone beat me too it.

 

[Timbo]

2 hours ago, psychicsurveyor said:

I am stumped,

Any ideas what this is officially called,

Thanks.

Yup....The Bat Mobile!

 

[WherryNice]

Pow..........

[Turnoar]

Wasn’t there a Bat Boat?

[WherryNice]

Indeed there was...

 

https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2014-08-30/cars/196667-glastron-bat-boat/

[riverman]

Any pliable plastic pipe will do. Boat yards use underground water pipe

[wombat nee blownup]

9 hours ago, Turnoar said:

Wasn’t there a Bat Boat?

Is this the right time to be talking about bats? I mean!!

[OldBerkshireBoy]

Bats have been given a bad press, they weren`t even in the area.

[scaniaman]

Hi Mark, if your after the red tubing look at the TTC trailer parts catalog, they do rolls of black red or yellow air brake pipe in different sizes. Its available through any local truck parts supplier and truckers never pay over the odds.

Paul

[ExSurveyor]

Bats have never had a good press.

Nothing wrong with bats as long as they are left in the trees and caves instead of being taken to a wet market or served on a plate.

[OldBerkshireBoy]

7 minutes ago, psychicsurveyor said:

Bats have never had a good press.

Nothing wrong with bats as long as they are left in the trees and caves instead of being taken to a wet market or served on a plate.

Which they weren`t in this case. No bats were found in the wet market infact the nearest bat was several hundreds of Km away however there were two research labs very close to the market.

[annv]

Try Veteran car parts as this type of filler was used in screen trim inserts .John

[ExSurveyor]

I have got a sample coming from Wilks, blimey it is expensive.

[Oddfellow]

12 hours ago, riverman said:

Any pliable plastic pipe will do. Boat yards use underground water pipe

The pipe that Riverman mentions is used ONLY where there is a flange to put the pipe over. The pipe in question is something like 8mm thick walled and an absolute bitch it handle. It was commonly used on Bounty and Alpha boats where the flange was part of the moulding of the hull and superstructer with each part forming half of the flange. 

It cannot be used on something without a flange unless you drill and screw it on which would make this little run about look like a bumper car but worse, it won't take any shock and will pop off of the screws when hit. 

It works on cruisers because the pipe is split and is pushed over the flange. This enables the pipe to compress around the split when it comes under pressure. 

[Oddfellow]

1 minute ago, psychicsurveyor said:

I have got a sample coming from Wilks, blimey it is expensive.

Oh yes! Let me give you an idea. I had to replace the rubber around the back of Absolute Freedom recently. 11 metres aprox and about £400. The cost to redo a 35ft around just the top section was about £1300 last year plus a week's worth of work to fit it. 

 

[ExSurveyor]

Glad it is only 32' in total.

[OldBerkshireBoy]

 

14 minutes ago, FreedomBoatingHols said:

The pipe that Riverman mentions is used ONLY where there is a flange to put the pipe over. The pipe in question is something like 8mm thick walled and an absolute bitch it handle. It was commonly used on Bounty and Alpha boats where the flange was part of the moulding of the hull and superstructer with each part forming half of the flange. 

It cannot be used on something without a flange unless you drill and screw it on which would make this little run about look like a bumper car but worse, it won't take any shock and will pop off of the screws when hit. 

It works on cruisers because the pipe is split and is pushed over the flange. This enables the pipe to compress around the split when it comes under pressure. 

Like this?

[Oddfellow]

1 minute ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:

Like this?

Like this?

yes, That has some kind of stopper in it. 

If that blunt end gets stuck on something an the boat pulls forward, it's likely to rip the section off the flange. It's a absolute bitch to handle to put back on. Really needs heating to make it pliable. I used to see LeBoat wacking it with large rubber mallets like sledgehammers to force it open and pop back over. Obviously, you need a lot of space, a really good footing and quite some balls to do it to your own boat.