Balsa Boat Floor

The properties of end grain balsa make it ideal as a core for sandwich construction.

Balsa boat floor.

Great lakes skipper offers a nice selection of marine grade plywood boat dash panel blanks woodgrain boat panels genuine balsa sheets beautiful hardwood laminate sheets and panels and boat bulkhead trim at great prices. Bayliner 3m larson boats baltek and misty harbor are just a few of the name brand boat dash blanks and panels we carry. When first used as a hull stiffener boat builders laid long planks of balsa into the hulls but this method led to rot and structural failure when water wicked through the entire plank. Duflex balsa panels are available with standard 155 kg m 3 or select grade 100 kg m 3 end grain balsa cores.

The balsa is plantation grown and kiln dried and processed in an end grain configuration. The boys at js prop marine replace the floor vinyl and carpet in a lund boat. Marquis yachts 54 w platform plasdeck 5 piece synthetic boat decking flooring kit custom 1 pd k2 8404632 gls stock. Typical applications include hull and deck core replacement construction of small parts and inexpensive straight core replacement.

It s taken balsa a long time to live down this beginning but modern balsa is now a widely accepted coring material in boats. Balsa core probalsa contoured probalsa plus is a coated contourable endgrain balsa wood for use in marine and boatbuilding applications. Have your repairs done at js prop marine or pick up your do it yourself su. Coated with a thin resin film to enhance bond with epoxy ve and polyester resin systems.

Balsa core end grain balsa a highly processed ultra light wood product imparts impressive strength and stiffness to the sandwich panel. Standard core for many oem boatbuilders.