When ordering your spray deck please specify the hull material of your boat. If you are not sure, contact the manufacture and we will make sure the correct installation kit is included with your Spray Deck
ABS or Royalex – most of these boats use a vinyl interior skin and will use our standard installation kit. If the interior skin is polyethylene you will need to use our special nylon installation loops attached by rivets.
Fibreglass, Kevlar – will use our Standard installation kit.
Polyethylene – you need to rivet our special nylon installation loops into your boat.
Aluminium – you need to rivet our special nylon installation loops into your boat.
Thermal formed Plastic – you need to rivet our special nylon installation loops into your Esquif’s Twin Tex – you need to rivet our special nylon installation loops into your boat, or use an adhesive from the manufacture.
Webbing Ladder lock attachment system
For all hull materials you can rivet our special nylon webbing loops or a continuous length of 1” webbing around the perimeter of the boat 5.5” below the underside of the. Use a 3/16” diameter all aluminium rivet with 3/8” diameter back-up washers (one for outside, one inside). The length of the rivet will be determined “grip range” required. This is determined by adding the thickness of the hull plus the thickness of two washers and the webbing loop. Hand rivet tools can be purchased at any hardware store for under $20.00.