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Old 04-19-2015, 07:44 PM
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Considering fabricating a swim platform from King Starboard or a similar material. Anyone have any experience with using this material?
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I've used it for a few things, nothing that had to support much weight though. I made a passenger side foot rest and some trim rings for my speakers. The foot rest had some aluminum angle iron and wood as part of the project. The starboard will have some flex to it if it is a long piece. You might be able to use it for the top side, then use metal brackets underneath.
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Originally Posted by hadleycat
Considering fabricating a swim platform from King Starboard or a similar material. Anyone have any experience with using this material?
Make me one while you are at it! haha. I hate our ugly textured fiberglass platforms.
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Make me one while you are at it! haha. I hate our ugly textured fiberglass platforms.
No problem, I am having mine cut on our Cnc router at work. I could easily cut two.
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My main concern is how stiff the material is. It looks like the professionals go with 2 layers of 3/4" material. I found a couple sheets at work today so I will do some testing tomorrow
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Originally Posted by hadleycat
My main concern is how stiff the material is. It looks like the professionals go with 2 layers of 3/4" material. I found a couple sheets at work today so I will do some testing tomorrow
I have been kicking the same idea around. please keep us posted with pics. I'm not a 100% certain where my exhaust is gonna exit the transome/deck so I'm holding off a week or two but would really like to get things in order. I had thought about aluminum.

Good luck and look forward to seeing your progress.

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We use TONS of the stuff where I work at Tiara Yachts. You can get it in 1-1/2" thick, but it's pretty pricey and very heavy. You can also get it with an antislip surface texture on it. We use that on our big tournament fishing boats.
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Originally Posted by spazboz
We use TONS of the stuff where I work at Tiara Yachts. You can get it in 1-1/2" thick, but it's pretty pricey and very heavy. You can also get it with an antislip surface texture on it. We use that on our big tournament fishing boats.
I bet you use louon also.
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Saw this online
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Originally Posted by spazboz
We use TONS of the stuff where I work at Tiara Yachts. You can get it in 1-1/2" thick, but it's pretty pricey and very heavy. You can also get it with an antislip surface texture on it. We use that on our big tournament fishing boats.
Very cool! I am thinking I am go into use 2 layers of 3/4" because thats what we have laying around our shop. The bottom layer I plan on cutting some strategically located lightening holes in it. My support brackets extend out from my transom 13" I plan on my platform extending out 18". Hopefully I will be ok with a 5" cantilever. It seems to me I could make mine much stronger if I could glue the 2 pieces together and not just screw them but I haven't heard of a glue that will work.
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