chrissrv195
New Member
- Nov 30, 2009
- 133
- Boat Info
- 1979 Sea Ray SRV 195
- Engines
- 260 Mercruiser w/ Type 1 Mercruiser 260 Stern Drive
Hey everybody. Just completed constructing our new swim platform & thought I would share the results. Our '79 SRV195 originally came with a small teak platform & it just wasn't big enough & was looking pretty worn. For the longest time I tried thinking of a material to make a new platform out of (other than expensive teak) & couldn't come up with anything that wasn't cost prohibitive. Thanks to OLDSKOOL for giving me the inspiration & the idea of making a new full length platform out of the composite decking material! Home Depot carries the TREK brand of this material & it has pretty good customer reviews so we got some that was pretty close to being the same color as the rest of the teak on the boat. I had our local welding shop fab up the brackets underneath & reused the original ones near the ends. Stainless & aluminum hardware throughout. Got the new swim ladder from Windline.com. Looked at the ladders that mount underneath & decided to go with one that mounts above. I was going to make the deck in the same style as the original, but there's a teak ski compartment in the boat that is also made in this style so I though it would tie the two together. We tested it out on the water the other day & I couldn't be hapier with the looks & strength of it. I think it looks like original equipment. I left some scraps of the deck material in a bucket of water for two weeks to see what would hapen to it & water has NO effect on the color or strength. It doesn't even soak into it! So I'm confident it will last "forever" & retain it's color. Hope you like!
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