[Alberg30] Cockpit Grating Material

win alled wallred at olg.com
Thu Jan 24 10:26:30 PST 2002


Alan, oak is not a good choice, teak is expensive and hard on tools but
excellent.  Cypress is a good alternative to teak for a grate.  It lacks
the structual strength of teak, but for what you propose it will be
plenty strong (and durable).

Win Allred, a future A30 owner

"Alan P. Kefauver" wrote:

> The oak will warp although White Oak was sometimes used for frames in sailing ships. You will be better off with marine ply and a teak or oak veneer applied with West Epoxy, then  sealed with varnish or teak dressing.
> Red Oak will warp faster than White Oak. If you must use oak though make sure it is quarter sawn white oak as white oak has nearly triple the decay resistance and quartersawn wood swells and shrinks less than plain sawn. FYI White oak is used in wine barrels because the pores are clogged with tyloses which hold out moisture. Stickley used QS White oak for his mission style furniture.
> By the time you find and buy QS White Oak you might as well buy teak.
> Unless you have a planer/jointer and a dado blade on the tablesaw it will be cheaper to buy a premade grate from sailnet or somebody. Both Teak and WO are h*ll on saw and planer blades.
>
> Andante has been there and done that but now trying epoxy saturated poplar for hatch seats.
> Cheers,
> #152
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> On 1/23/2002 at 10:51 AM Bob Johns wrote:
>
> >The teak cockpit grating that was on Wind Call, #397 when we bought it in
> >1976 has finally given up the ghost.
> >
> >Three or four times a summer six of us, that used to work together, go for
> >a day sail. The guys are not sailors but enjoy the comradeship of getting
> >together this way. We have done this since I retired in 1986. When Wind
> >Call was
> >  during hurricane Bob, the group pitched in to help bring it back after
> >basic repairs were made.
> >
> >On our last sail last summer it was obvious that the grating would have to
> >be discarded or replaced. Last week I went to lunch with them (for the
> >first time in a while) and they said that they would like to build a new
> >grating for the boat. During the last sail there had been some discussion
> >about alternatives to building a conventional grating of teak. They are
> >proposing a single piece for the top of the "grating" with openings cut
> >into the top for drainage and traction, and of course provision for
> >drainage underneath. They are proposing making it of oak. I think that the
> >method of construction though unconventional, might be OK. I don't know if
> >oak would work here.
> >
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