New Decking Material

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I was wondering if anyone has redone there wood decking wit another material and if so what did you use, I'm wanting to lighten it up a bit..
 

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Re: New Decking Material

I was wondering if anyone has redone there wood decking wit another material and if so what did you use, I'm wanting to lighten it up a bit..

I don't know if this will help but a few month ago maybe one year some guy from Illinois an engineer as much as I can remember had replaced the floor in his boat with some stuff from this site http://www.closedcellfoams.com/polyethylene.html I kept this because I have an inflatable floor that I'm not too happy with and I was thinking getting a hard one ( just dreaming ) at the same time depending of you boat configuration you'll be able to get a hard wood floor or alufloor from boatstogo.com but depends on availability.
Good luck

Paul
 

Chris in Indiana

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Re: New Decking Material

I wrote a pretty detailed post on this a while back, I did mine in HDPE and they work great. NOT lighter than wood but better by far. Aluminum is lightest but big $$ to work something up custom.
 

gresults

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Re: New Decking Material

Thanks for the ideas, Trying to lighten things up a bit the wood is really heavy...
 
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