Wooden Boat People
By McKenzieDriftBoat.com
removable floor boards
As I'm working on installing my floor boards I was rummaging through some stuff left over from installing the engineered wooden floor in our main room. I ran across a transition strip that is installed by screwing down a metal track then the transition piece just snaps into it. It has me thinking that it just might work for the floor boards in a boat. No barrel bolts just snaps into place like the wood transition strips. Of course it would require that a small, maybe 3/8 wide by 1/2 thick strip be attached to the bottom of the floor board. What do you all think? Robert
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Permalink Reply by Robert Puckett on
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here's a pic of the track that would screw to the top of the frame
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Permalink Reply by Mike Baker on
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I'm not really sure how your system would work but I hate the barrel bolt system. Would each board be removable separately or would that clip hold in all of them.
Mike
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i would run a stringer along the bottom of the boards so the floor would be removable as one piece. the small wood strips would attach to the bottom of the floor boards. The stringers are much like they are using with the barrel bolts. Now the metal track could attach to the top of the frame (rib) as one solid piece or it could be cut to the width of each board. I would run it as one solid piece though.
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no drafting tools and even less skill. but here is an attempt at a sketch from a side view of what i had in mind. the stringer would tie all your floor boards together. the wood strip would just attach to the bottom of individual boards. Example: floor board is 4" wide the wood strip would be 4" in length. The track can be the entire length of the frame. I hope I'm making sense here.
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sketch.pdf, 349 KB
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