Bed Liner Spray Finish?

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Mike Trudel

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Anyone try using bed liner spray to quiet an aluminum boat? The boat I recently purchased has a lot of aluminum exposed on the interior sides. I am considering having the bed liner sprayed on the interior walls and gunnels to quiet boat.

How does this stuff wear and quiet boat? Thanks. Mike
 
Mike Perhaps Brad Tayor from Toller boatworks NC will come in on this one, He uses it a lot in his Duckhunters.
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I had a small flat bottom boat that I had rhino lined. The main purpose was to quiet the boat. It worked great and held up considering it was a bit softer then the do it yourself variety store brand.
 
I don't have any experience with it on aluminum but I have line-x on my truck bed. It has held up great. I chuck construction debris in there every day and I think I only have one small chip from a piece of concrete, and its not even all the way through. It's quieter then throwing stuff on to a regular steel bed.
 
Mike - I put some stuff I got from a local auto store. Held up well on marine plywood floor. Lasted only one season on the aluminum. Pat
 
Mike,take a look at the Grizzly-Grip stuff,works great! I had some left over from my bb3 and put it on a friend of mines aluminum boat,he said it quieted it down alot,still holding up too,they have alot of different colors to choose from, Brian
 
Mike,

A buddy placed rubber matting that interlocks together on the floor of his 14 foot, makes it quiet and easy on the knees. When we clean it you just pull it up, wash and clean, then place it back in...easy.

Matt
 
Tamarack is the american larch (Larix laricina) really tough stuff, algonquin's used it for snowshoes. tamarack is an algonquin word for the tree
 
Interesting....Tamarack is common to Montana and so forth but it is normally sold around here as a substitute for Douglas fir,,,when you said tamarack lumber that was the farthest thing from my mind as I think of it as house logs or dimensional lumber for building and not boats per say..

Around here old timers use cottonwood lumber for the floor of horse and stock trailers....used green and let dry in place...tough stringy wood that takes the impacts of livestock hoofs ...
 
I actually have Rhino liner applied to the bottom surface (outside) of the hull on my fiberglass duck boat. The stuff makes for a rather durable surface; good for ice breaking and beaching; and it made the entire hull bottom black (instead of the white gel coat). I wonder if anyone else applied it to the bottom of their hull......
 
With the rough surface of that coating....what does it do to the boats performance? no longer hits 40mph? HAHAHA!!
 
The previous owner had the stuff applied, and it's a glossy/smooth liner, and therefore I doubt it affects the performance of the boat much.
He claims it was Rhino liner, although I have no way of knowing if it was possibly a different brand, and just calling it Rhino..........like Kleenex in lieu of tissue...

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No, I thought it was a good question, because until I bought this boat, I've never seen smooth/shiney liner before. All the bed liners I've seen, have some kind of texture and pebbled surface.
But, this liner looks rather thick, and probably added a bunch of weight to the boat...........but the hull (Glastron) was already 800 lbs.........so.....
 
The texture in most bedliners is intentionally added by the way it's applied. I'm no expert but have some experience with it (I manage a bodyshop). I just had a salesman trying to sell me a bedliner application system and he explained how you apply it and then the final step is applied differently to add the texture. I've thought about doing the bottom of my TDB. I will be doing the inside floor in the near future, the gel coat is getting very thin.

Gene
 
Well, this was my first season with this boat, and the liner on the hull seems to be fine. Although, I didn't have to break through too much ice, and was fairly gentle when beaching the boat.
The liner is not as hard as an epoxy-type gel coat (as you'd find on most fiberglass hulls), but it does seem fairly durable, and may even be better at certain types of wear/tear by providing a small amount of "give"?...........but, I'm not really sure, and that's just a possible theory.
So, I'm not really sure why the previous owner applied a bed liner to the hull...........all I know is that something needed to be done, as the hull was a bright color (white or tan), which obviously doesn't do well for camo.
But, I'm wondering if the previous owner could have mixed-up some real dark-colored gel coat, or other 2-part curing coating (like a "barrier coat"). Maybe it's more expensive than the rhino lining? Or, maybe he thought other types of hull coating is too thin?
 
Matt, I know wooden boat guys who get swamped boats in for restoration,that have spent a number of years on the bottom of the lake, and they tell me the entire boat will be rotten, but that tamarack floor will still be in good shape.

The wood is fairly popular with the Wooden Boat magazine crowd.
 
Mike,

Interesting about the tamarack not rotting. Years ago the wife and I were going to build a log home. Had the prints drawn up etc. Even had a peice of property where we drilled a well. The logs were specked at 10-12 inch top tamarack (longest was 50 feet)....we liked the slight red color, plus it has good structural strength similar to doug fir.. Well things changed and we never built the home.


Matt
 
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