Rozboon wrote: I would say it's a build-time thing, on ours the hull bung only goes to the sub-floor; pretty sure the pontoons are sealed up like a sealed thing when they are built. The foam won't react with the alloy (unless they use some ridiculous foam), usually it's water getting trapped that cooks the alloy, but there shouldn't be any water inside your pontoons unless something has gone horribly wrong. |
Rozboon wrote: I would say it's a build-time thing, on ours the hull bung only goes to the sub-floor; pretty sure the pontoons are sealed up like a sealed thing when they are built. The foam won't react with the alloy (unless they use some ridiculous foam), usually it's water getting trapped that cooks the alloy, but there shouldn't be any water inside your pontoons unless something has gone horribly wrong. |
donny18 wrote: I think this this question might be a bit hard for Stabicraft to answer for what ever reason, poor customer service or lack of knowledge on behalf of the people answering questions from Stabicraft, or maybe both..i don't know. Anyway, I've contacted Stabicraft and asked pretty much what I wrote up above and was replied to very shortly after with questions which i answered and then....nothing, silence. To be honest it was like talking to a politician of who you ask a question to which you have to ask the same question again without an answer. I've got no time for this type customer service if you can't ask a simple question and get an answer in an appropriate amount of time. I wouldn't have thought it would be to hard to answer, name of foam and how it's fitted. |
notalloyit wrote: Surely some of the closed cell foams had a percentage of peroxide in them , which including condensation build up could be a long term issue ? Reaction between alloy and foam. Even closed cell foam gets water logged after a period of time. . |
SumoSid wrote: Not to sound too geeky, but Archimedes' principle applies here. A boat will float if it is displacing more weight in water than it weighs. Foam in a sealed pontoon does not add flotation as the water displacement has not changed due to the size of the pontoon size remaining the same. Actually, one could argue that adding foam to a sealed pontoon will make the boat slightly less buoyant due to the weight added. Foam added to a Stabicraft is simply to reduce noise (drum affect), making the noise a lowered noise frequency, acting as a barrier from noise outside the boat vibrating the inside of the boat making it all less audible. |
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