Method for manufacture of a boat deck having a surface of adjacent strips, and a deck manufactured according to the method

Abstract

A method for the manufacture of a deck of adjacently located strips for series-produced decked boats, including the steps of arranging a number of strip members in a parallel relationship, separated from each other by means of intermediately located spacing members, thus giving the strip members a longitudinally extending curved configuration mainly corresponding to the deck line of the boat to which the deck is intended to be attached, thereafter applying a supporting and joining member against the free edge portions of the strip members, and by means of an adhesive, vulcanization, or similar previously known method producing a joint between the strip members and the supporting and joining member, whereafter the spacing members located between the strip shaped members are removed. As a further step, the strip members are arranged with a height corresponding to at least twice the intended height, and a second joining and supporting member is attached against the strip members in an opposed relationship to the first member, whereafter the strip members are divided along a central longitudinally extending line, thereby forming two mirror image deck halves.

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