[Public-List] Liner boats

[Gordon Laco]

Hello Greg - 

A ‘liner boat’ is one with a hull number over 400… you are certainly in the liner era.

The main differences are

- the galley arrangement (liner boats have top loading ice boxes)… 

- The floor board arrangement in the cabin sole (liner boats have a fibre glass inner structure which the floor boards lay in)  

- Liner boats have the improved aluminium mast step support arch

- and of course, they were built with a liner that covers the entire deck head, and that includes the inner surfaces of the coach roof.

- there are numerous other differences involving how the toe rail is made, balsa core decks (stiffer, lighter and stronger when the balsa is healthy, not so good if it gets wet…)

There is no space between the so called liner and the actual structure of the deck… they are a single integral structure, not two structures.

In practical terms, liner boats have a gelcoated inner surface to their decks just like the outer surfaces.    With regard to fitting a light; you’ll have to run the wires on the surface of the deck head just as in an earlier vintage non-liner boat.

Gordon Laco
#426 Surprise




> On May 8, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Greg Hounsell via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> What is between (assumption) the liner and the coach roof?
> 
> Thinking about installing a dome light and the running of the wires..
> 
> Greg
> #592
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