[Alberg30] Cockpit Grating Material

[Bob Johns]

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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