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Hi All,
I have read a few instructions on installing rub rail on my Katama, but they pretty much just talk about installing the L trim and rigid channel. My question is what is the best way to put the black insert into the channel, do you thread it starting a one end and try and push it around or is it best to put in an edge all the way around and pry it into place? Anyway if anyone has experience with this I would love to hear the best or more so the easiest method.
Thanks
Also, I can save some of the old rigid channel(white) for anyone that needs some peices or maybe for a smaller whaler.
Lay it out in the sun to get it as hot as you can. After it is hot lay it on the gunwal of the boat all the way around. Start at one end on the stern. Depending on your stops at the transom leave overhang to secure later. Standing outside the boat. Hold the open side of the insert toward your rubrail bracket. Pinch top and bottom of insert together. put insert into bracket and release. Now move forward inserting as you go. After you have about o foot inserted start using a soft rubber mallet and follow your path evenly tapping to spread insert. You can see what a rubrail installed in this manner looks like on my personnel page. Good Luck. Paul B
the only thing i would add to that would be to put both stern pieces on, pull the center to the bow and insert. The reason i say this is my method is i just pulled mine off from the starboard stern, around the bow to the port bow light while replacing my light wires. When i reinstalled it, i was short about a foot. I pulled it off again, secured the stern with the L bracket and screws, stretched it to the bow, and worked my way from port, secured the bow cleat, and worked my way back to the stern working it as i went with a rubber hammer. It reinstalled perfectlly. Now mine was the original and i was just putting it back. If a new ones is expected to be longer and cut the fit, then the method described in the earlier post sounds like a winner.
Your absolutely right on a re-install duf. I did that with a 17' one time. However all new rubrails from Whaler are sent long with the intention of cutting off the extra.
I was a foot short on my 1st re-install too (Sport 15), I then used two people, I stretched it all the way around while the other person guided it into the channel, when I released it slightly, it locked in. Then I screwed it to the transom corner.
