{"id":975,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:10:45","slug":"fiberglass-hull-aluminum-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fiberglass-hull-aluminum-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiberglass Hull&#8211;Aluminum Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p>Hello Steve, I have been offered a really nice bare hull, but the mould for the deck is a center cockpit. I would like to build the boat as an aft cockpit. I could either build a deck in plywood and glass it on top afterward, but I wondered if I could build a deck in aluminum. This seems to me to be quite a good mix. Fiberglass below and aluminum above. This would suit me because I could leave it bare for non slip on the side decks and also I could build the hard dodger in aluminum. Do you think that the differential expansion between fiberglass on aluminum could cause a problem? I also wonder whether it might cause problems later with resale because it is so unconventional. Any comments would be welcome. Thanks, Howard <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>My suggestion would be to do a &#8220;plug&#8221; in light plywood and then do a one off layup in fiberglass. I say this because of re-sale, and my guess is that it would be net easier. Good luck&#8211;Steve<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Steve, I have been offered a really nice bare hull, but the mould for the deck is a center <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fiberglass-hull-aluminum-deck\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yacht-construction-forum","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36275,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/36275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}