oldsubsailor
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- Sep 1, 2016
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Very new to fresh water boating. Just picked up (yesterday) a used 1987 28 foot Lowe pontoon which is need of some TLC. After I got the boat home, I was underneath it and noticed that the previous owner whom has replaced the deck and carpet, put new furniture on it and was generally in the final stages of getting this boat on the water, has put a heavy steel channel iron piece (approx 10 inches wide and 2 to 3 inches deep, looks like it would hold a elephant) across the pontoons just forward of the transom under where the batteries are installed inside of a bench couch for setting. I do not know why he put this in there, but I am concerned about the steel being screwed directly to aluminum. I thought I had read in this forum that you did not want to do that because the two dissimilar metals would cause corrosion. I would like to try to get this boat on the water with the grandkids in what little time we have left this season. We are in southern Oklahoma, so a couple more months, unless global warming kicks into high gear, then we will have all winter. But I am off subject here, so anyway I am thinking of leaving the metal in boat until this winter, then pull everything off deck, furniture, carpet back as far as I have to, and replace this steel with something more compatible like aluminum or maybe even strong wood crosspiece. Will the metals eat each other quickly or is this something I should not even worry about ever and go fish and swim?