This will make two pontoons 80 foot long completely water tight and bouyant.

Pontoon floor joists. This point will be the back stern location of the Water Glide. While under way water splashes up under the boat directly against a floor joist. Per linear foot at ten-foot spans for joists and up to.

These cross members are intended to provide stiff support to the large floor panel directly above in a pontoon boat. Jun 13 2014 - Started with a heap of junk in the Vegas desert. And we still need to add cross-members or floor joists for the decking at a undetermined weight.

Other metal deck framing systems offer only one joist size. From this mark determine the closest floor joist forward or back. The end result is water coming up in that spot and soaking the carpeting.

Pontoon Boat Aluminum Channel. Custom size your design we make for you. Nominal width joists spaced at distance s measured from center to center see figureThe span length L of each joist is 105 ft the spacing s of the joists is 16 in and the allowable bending stress in the wood is.

Joists are lightweight supporting members that form long-span support systems for the horizontal surfaces of a building namely roofs and floors by transferring their load onto columns and beams. Unfortunately pontoon boats do better with 34 plywood sheets or large aluminum sheets connected every 6 inches with screws or bolts to the floor joists. The front deck is.

Wider nailer strip in joist makes nailing of deck easier and quicker. Plywood is more structurally sound than aluminum floored pontoons. She is coming along nicely.