Looks like a backing plate to spread the load on the fiberglass. Some people use metal plates, but the best idea I’ve heard is to use Starboard (or use a piece of plastic cutting board). Without the backing plate, you might get some stress cracking around the nuts. But the way my boat was manufactured, none of the nuts in the cabin for the stanchions or Genoa tracks have backing plates.
Thanks for this mate.. well done vid
Counter sink those holes on the deck to get a better/more butyl into the seam.
What is the green plate above nuts?
Looks like a backing plate to spread the load on the fiberglass. Some people use metal plates, but the best idea I’ve heard is to use Starboard (or use a piece of plastic cutting board). Without the backing plate, you might get some stress cracking around the nuts. But the way my boat was manufactured, none of the nuts in the cabin for the stanchions or Genoa tracks have backing plates.
@kites4121 Thanks a lot.
What’s the plate that you have under the deck? Is it fiberglass? Is that something that you added?