Nort I just went looking and can not find it. Any way you can link it up? I had a number of conversations with the company that makes Plexus as well as a few builders around us and the conclusion that I cam up with was to stick with the 5200 for a couple of reasons. 1 was that the work time with plexus is just way to short for most people to accomplish properly, my guess is even Formula unless they put a whole team of people on it. The second is that humididty levels were critical. 3 I did my windsheild with 5200 and was amazed at what a difference that made to the overall feel of the boat. 4 The plexus and what they used on my 311 failed, the 5200 has not on my 302 but to be fair I only used that boat for 1 season. 5 according to the guys at Plesux the gap that needs to remain after is critical, so you can not overtighten it. I could not figure out a way to do this.

I am guessing that there are many guys out there with this issue. Mine was doing it, yours is and a friend of mine has his doing it. If you have to keep tightening up your rub rail is the first indicator that you have this problem.

Best thing you can do to keep clean up easier is before you loosen the deck bond you want to tape off under the deck joint. Then hand paper so the glue can not get on the hull. That whay once you tighted the screws and all the crap comes out you just peal off the paper and tape and no cleaning is required.

Post 44?

I think this is what you were talking about. It may or may not make a mechanical bong but the crap when dry will NEVER let go. The Plexus has only as I recall a 30 min work time. Assuming 10 min to get the bead all the way around the boat that leaves you with about 15 to 20 min to get a crap load of screws installed. If you had a large team of guys it is probably not a huge issue but for little old me.....

What is this about a mechanical bong?

LOL I tried to go back and fix that but the site went down I knew you would get a kick out of it.

bong, bong, bong, bong,,,,sounds like my head after a evening of tequlia..ing

I had the same issue with my 1989 272. I found a strip of masking tape under the plexus! All the way around the boat; all but 1/8" to 1/4" of the plexus was doing noththing... On the bright side it made cleaning the cavity for the new 3m 4200 a breeze!

The boat feels MUCH more solid on the water now as well.

From the factory my boat had stainless thru bolts (phillips #3 fine thread screws into a 6"x 1"x 1/4" aluminum spreader plate every 18" all the way around.)

The rub rail was missing from my boat and the bond is broken between hull and deck nearly 3/4 around the boat...should be an interesting fix. I was told that using 1/4" stainless bolts with fender washers or backing plates instead of the screws at every other attaching point would help prevent this from happening in the future.