1978 Islander 22 I/O

[IslandExplorer]

Wow, love the diamond plate and SS floor drains you added! They probably should have done that from the factory. That looks so clean. Might need a couple of those. Could rinse it right out if needed. Great work and thinking on that.

That under bench area is one of the louder in-cabin areas when anchored due to wave slap. Was on my Starchief at least anyways. I bet the choice to put foam in there will really help quiet it down when in there taking a nap on the hook.

 

[redneck joe]

Vinyl on the forward cabin bench. I guess they discontinued making Nautolex's glue. The Weldwood seems to be working fine.

i used weldwood with no problems

 

[66Holiday924]

Wow, love the diamond plate and SS floor drains you added! They probably should have done that from the factory. That looks so clean. Might need a couple of those. Could rinse it right out if needed. Great work and thinking on that.

Exactly! I'm thinking about long-term care, ease of cleaning and replacing. The idea with the garage flooring is for it to be a disposable option. I'm not gluing it in. When it is junk, take up the deck fittings cut a new piece and put it down. There's nothing to rot under the flooring. It's aluminum framing and coosa.

The garage flooring is expanding and contracting. When it gets really hot I have a wrinkle... Nothing too bad. When I put the rest in, I'm going to put it in while it's hot and see how that helps that out.

That under bench area is one of the louder in-cabin areas when anchored due to wave slap. Was on my Starchief at least anyways. I bet the choice to put foam in there will really help quiet it down when in there taking a nap on the hook.

I just figured that I have a whole cabin to use for storage. So, I took what storage I wanted out of the benches and used the opportunity to get an adequate amount of floatation foam in. Besides, in my experience, the under-bench storage isn't really that great. You end up putting stuff on the benches and have to move a bunch of stuff to get into it, and it ends up getting really dirty and grimy under there.

As I was doing it, I was thinking that it should help with sound. Aluminum boats can be loud.