Balsa Boat Floor

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Balsa boat floor.

It s taken balsa a long time to live down this beginning but modern balsa is now a widely accepted coring material in boats. Have your repairs done at js prop marine or pick up your do it yourself su. Standard core for many oem boatbuilders. The balsa is plantation grown and kiln dried and processed in an end grain configuration.

When first used as a hull stiffener boat builders laid long planks of balsa into the hulls but this method led to rot and structural failure when water wicked through the entire plank. Coated with a thin resin film to enhance bond with epoxy ve and polyester resin systems. Coated contourable endgrain balsa wood. Balsa core end grain balsa a highly processed ultra light wood product imparts impressive strength and stiffness to the sandwich panel.

The properties of end grain balsa make it ideal as a core for sandwich construction. Duflex balsa panels are available with standard 155 kg m 3 or select grade 100 kg m 3 end grain balsa cores. The boys at js prop marine replace the floor vinyl and carpet in a lund boat. Marquis yachts 54 w platform plasdeck 5 piece synthetic boat decking flooring kit custom 1 pd k2 8404632 gls stock.

The end grain configuration of balsa provides high resistance to crushing and is very difficult to tear apart. Typical applications include hull and deck core replacement construction of small parts and inexpensive straight core replacement.