{"id":725,"date":"2019-06-08T18:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T01:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.h2ak.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2019-06-08T18:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T01:47:39","slug":"rubrail-installation-with-one-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Rubrail installation – with one person!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, today I installed the Ipe rubrail down both sides of the boat. I had been hesitant to tackle this solo, as the thought of wrangling a 20 foot rubrail into position by myself self gave me pause. But, after looking at the problem from many angles, I came up with a solution.<\/p>\n

First, i found these long pieces of stock and put them between the boat and the CWB pickup next to it, and set the rail on top of it.<\/p>\n


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After slathering the back side of the rub rail with dolphanite, I started at the rear, pre-drilling the holes and screwing the rubrail down. after the first or second piece, I dropped the midship board and continued to work it around the edge.<\/p>\n

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I used a clamp to preload the curve as i worked it around.<\/p>\n

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After I got it installed, I installed the teak plugs into the rubrail.<\/p>\n

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This worked well, so I repeated the process on the other side, using the workbench for the assist boards<\/p>\n

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Carefull observers may notice some of the bronze work has been installed, as well as the bowsprit; once i get more of this done i’ll probably write about that at a later date.<\/p>\n

Now, off to check the R2AK tracker! Go Razzle Dazzle!<\/p>\n

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So, today I installed the Ipe rubrail down both sides of the boat. I had been hesitant to tackle this solo, as the thought of wrangling a 20 foot rubrail into position by myself self gave me pause. But, after looking at the problem from many angles, I came up with a solution. First, i Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-repairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}