mark001
Junior Member
Hi,
the toe rail on my E36C has separated from the hull and I am wondering if anyone has ideas on how to best repair it (see pic below).
The toe rail is/was attached by wood screws through the hull from the inside, and the heads of the screws where then glassed over. I assume this is the case for all the screws but they are also behind the interior walls so getting access to them would mean removing all the inner carpentery. The problem is over time the wood screws have pulled out of the toe rail so a gap has opened between the hull and the rail. It is like this on both sides but is (thankfully) confined to the middle section, ie the fore and aft ends are still attached. It has been like this for probably 10 years ... yeah its been on the to-do list for a long time and I have tried things like sikaflex but no success. I am concerned that if the end sections pull out then the whole thing will pop out or fall off. The boat is in Australian waters so the sun is quite extreme and expansion and contraction means the gap is sometimes bigger than at other times.
Any thoughts, or just leave it?
Regards,
Mark.
![E36C-ToeRail.jpg E36C-ToeRail.jpg](https://ericsonyachts.org/ie/data/attachments/41/41147-de91528847e4bad433cae73133f9f17f.jpg)
the toe rail on my E36C has separated from the hull and I am wondering if anyone has ideas on how to best repair it (see pic below).
The toe rail is/was attached by wood screws through the hull from the inside, and the heads of the screws where then glassed over. I assume this is the case for all the screws but they are also behind the interior walls so getting access to them would mean removing all the inner carpentery. The problem is over time the wood screws have pulled out of the toe rail so a gap has opened between the hull and the rail. It is like this on both sides but is (thankfully) confined to the middle section, ie the fore and aft ends are still attached. It has been like this for probably 10 years ... yeah its been on the to-do list for a long time and I have tried things like sikaflex but no success. I am concerned that if the end sections pull out then the whole thing will pop out or fall off. The boat is in Australian waters so the sun is quite extreme and expansion and contraction means the gap is sometimes bigger than at other times.
Any thoughts, or just leave it?
Regards,
Mark.
![E36C-ToeRail.jpg E36C-ToeRail.jpg](https://ericsonyachts.org/ie/data/attachments/41/41147-de91528847e4bad433cae73133f9f17f.jpg)