Side joiners for floorboards installed correctly?

[Pack Rat]

I have two side joiners (1 short and 1 long) which do not cover the floor boards totally.
I'm thinking I may have them installed incorrectly and should have more of the gap in the center.

I can't go too much forward since the bow starts to curve but I can go backwards more if I flip them around. What do you think?

 

[azzurro]

Re: Side joiners for floorboards installed correctly?

Just join closer the stringers in the 3rd floor plate... the way they look you won't have much trouble unless the keel is deflated. Just keep the keel on the correct pressure.

You can use the gap near the transom to secure a ladder with something like this:
http://marinestore.co.uk/PL12589.html

 

[Sea Rider]

Re: Side joiners for floorboards installed correctly?

If you would like to have a very tough floor assembly along with sib, ask dealer to provide two long piece side joiners with same lenght instead of having 4 pieces, two short, two long, two long pieces solves noisy and bend floor pannels rails issues with under inflated sibs. Have changed for 2 pieces long alum side joiners on all our larger sibs that required 4, the performance is much better.

Place a long joiner at transom where pilot will be stearing, short one on other opposite tube, then a short to match the long pilot joiner and a long to match the opposite short, center them in middle sib.

Happy Boating

 

[nobrainsd]

Re: Side joiners for floorboards installed correctly?

Hard for me to see the relative lengths of the two side rails. If (by switching their positions) you can end up with the joint between the two side rails being located farther from any of the floor joints, then that is the way to go. You want to bridge the floor section joints and have the side rail joints fall as near the middle of a floor section as possible. The gap between the two side rails sure looks to fall very close to the floor section joints between 3 and 4.