Pajoly - what is it? Which bottom of the boat to choose?

This article will help determine the various types of flooring on the boat bottom to those who ask: "Pajoly - what is it?". This is the flooring - hard piyol or not, foldable or not, rack or not, with a H-shaped profile or the other, for an inflatable boat or catamarans with a hard deck ... The material also provides a lot of additional information on this issue.

Pajoly

What it is? This is partially or completely wooden removable flooring. It is placed on the bottom of the boat or installed on the deck of the cargo hold in the tiller and any other ship and ship spaces. On the deck of the ship, too, there is the opportunity to see the pion. Up to the seventies on old ships they used. For the safety of the products, so that they do not become damp, removable boards are installed on the decks of the storerooms. What it is, now it became clearer. What else do they need? To make even the bottom for freedom of movement inside the boat or ship, so that your feet, food and clothing do not get wet if water collects on the floor.

In the refrigerator holds to this day, you can find removable boards. What it is - previously known to almost everyone who somehow encountered water movements. Decks of cargo holds are covered with panels so as not to spoil different types of cargo by close proximity. Oil is spilled or even just condensation. All liquids accumulate on the floor under the grate, without touching the rest of the load, and as they accumulate flow into the bilge of the hold. But today we are talking not about ships, but about less cumbersome vessels, and will be considered a boat for a boat.

Floorings

Flooring on the bottom can be stationary, but they can not be called floorboards. This name is typical only for fully or partially removable decks. Stationary open decks, covered with wooden or metal decking, which is not removed, is also not a paul. Only removable and not necessarily wooden. Deck for boats are different. It can be even a rubber inflatable pion.

For example, in a PVC boat, the bottom is the most important part. They come with a stretch deck without a deck, with an inflatable floor, with a rack of flooring, with a hard wall and a rigid deck of an inflatable catamaran. Since these are very different configurations of the bottoms, it is necessary to consider separately - and the advantages and disadvantages are in each species.

Selection

Choose a removable bottom, depending on how and where exactly the inflatable boat will be used. Most often the material for such a bottom is chosen for special marine plywood. It is produced by a complex technology, and it is protected from getting wet. Some of the boats made of PVC can withstand aluminum piles. They look nice and neat, in all other advantages they do not have much in front of plywood. But the shortcomings are very significant.

Firstly, the metal produces such a noise during operation that it finally scares the fish off, while the motor greatly amplifies any vibrations. Nevertheless, almost all expensive boats are equipped with aluminum arches, which not only rattling, but also slide under your feet. Marine plywood in this respect is not better in the example: sturdy, isolates sound and does not slip. Sometimes it does not make all the flooring, but only one central section. Many make such a pail for the boat themselves.

Inexpensive boats

Small boats often sell at all without flooring - such is the basic equipment. On the floor in them is just a layer of PVC glued to the "bagel" on the sides. It is impossible to stand in such boats. It is also extremely inconvenient that all sharp objects in the equipment should be used extremely carefully, since the bottom is easily damaged.

Even those who fish on small bodies of water, it is not safe to walk on such a boat. It is convenient only that a small boat made of PVC is easily packed in a backpack and can be carried on your back anywhere. Without a floor, it becomes, naturally, not so heavy. Thus, the fisherman will be available the most remote reservoirs, where you need to get off the road, through the woods, but there the fish are not scared.

Inflatable pion

This kind of flooring, one might say, old-fashioned. However, the technology has also reached this point: the modern pail of the inflatable boat (air deck), even to hard flooring, is not inferior in convenience and in quality. Of course, the attitude to the inflatable floor should be much more circumspect, careful, which is not necessary, if under the feet of aluminum or sea plywood. The main thing - do not step on the hooks and other sharp objects, so as not to pierce the inflatable floor. Nevertheless, the quality of the modern floor for a boat made of PVC at a very high level: it does not wear off with its feet and any heavy objects, it is protected from basic mechanical damages. In addition, the dimensions are compact, when compared with a rigid wall.

The boat weighs less, but not much, since all this is modern strengthening of the fabric, its increased density with the weight of plywood is quite comparable. And large inflatable boats that are packed, like small ones, always in one bag, become almost ungearable for manual carrying. The dimensions of the soles can be different, hide underneath the whole bottom or only a small area for stability - the models of boats and soles to them are many thousands, all differ from one another. But here to wash the whole inflatable floor is much more inconvenient. Removable plywood pail can easily be washed, simply removing and dipping into the water separately from the rest of the boat.

Rail

Removable rake bottom for an inflatable boat perfectly serves in light and small models. It is glued on the underside of PVC-cloth sheets of boat plywood. This inflatable boat is full of advantages. Rheumatic pajol can easily be expanded and folded, it has a light weight.

You can not remove the pail from the boat at all, then when the cylinders are blown off, the whole boat rolls around the racks, and a fairly compact package is obtained. To assemble and disassemble such a structure, it will take no more than a quarter of an hour. However, there is no rigidity in it, and this does not allow using such a convenient poyol on large models of PVC boats.

Catamaran

Catamarans usually make a pull-down deck. This is equivalent to the complete absence of any kind of flooring, since it is impossible to stand on the tension deck. However, most often on alloys, this is not necessary: on the tension pajole, attach equipment and other things, and people sit astride the cylinders. In the plus inflatable deck is that any damage is unlikely: the structural features of such a vessel are such that the deck is very high above the water.

But on the catamarans "Masterkat" they use special rigid pajols, surpassing in size any boat. They are made of non-slip marine plywood and can be folded in half. Despite the fact that the entire deck consists of many sections (75 centimeters - central and 82.5 centimeters - sections at the edges), the assembly of the soles is quite simple. The rigidity of this design of the catamaran is achieved due to the longitudinal pipes or cylinders, so there is no need for additional clutches. The sheets of plywood are pulled together with a frame and with each other by a special sling, and in a slot the water is drained. It is convenient to wash this deck.

Rigid and collapsible boat flooring

On boats with a size of more than three meters is usually put hard flooring, the most common for inflatable boats. Unlike the rack-and-pinion it covers the entire bottom, providing the rigidity of the entire structure and full protection of the bottom of the PVC. This is what is necessary in boats with an inflatable keel, resting on the upper side just in the flooring. The boat with aluminum pajol - solid and rigid - can freely glide on the wave.

Folding boat flooring is convenient in that it is quickly inserted, unfolding like a book. The biggest advantage of it is the integrity of the design, but it does not provide the necessary rigidity. Stingers designed to strengthen the rigidity of the inflatable boat, this situation is not corrected: when the boat is gliding, the inflatable keel dissects the wave and experiences a shock load, even inflatable cylinders do not compensate for it. Payol book makes the glide path on the wave difficult. The thickness of plywood in such structures is usually 9 millimeters. The sheets are fastened with aluminum profiles and glued with PVC cloth. Many anglers and hunters make such a pail for the boat themselves.

H-shaped profile on rigid paile

This type of bottom - for boats made of PVC economy class, in production it is cheap and affordable for everyone. These are sheets of plywood, inserted one into the other. The difference from the folding poyola is that this design does not have integrity. But it is very good, if combined with stingers, - thus significantly increases the rigidity.

The H-shaped profile is just a minus of this type of bottoms, since it is considerably thinner than usual, with a smaller area of contact with the plywood sheets, which means that the load on the edges of the plywood is significantly increased. The edges do not have a special edging with metal, because they are directly inserted into the profile. In order to distinguish the pylon with the H-shaped profile from the usual, it is necessary to compare the strips of aluminum at the junction. The plywood is the same - 9 millimeters, but the strip is much thinner.

Hard pion and stingers

This kind of pajola is the most common for expensive boat models. The thickness of the plywood is no longer 9, but 12 millimeters, the sheets are connected by means of special grooves. Edging from aluminum already with the increased area of contact. This flooring is much stronger than the Payol book or with the n-shaped profile. In combination with stingers, the rigid poyol makes the boat almost monolithic in the design, even very strong waves do not knock it down from the planing.

The maximum effect is achieved by special reinforcement of the transom, which provides both stiffness and reduced load on the transom, distributing it throughout the bottom. In the joints of stingers, pajol is strengthened with aluminum to protect the edges of the plywood from any damage. Despite the advantages, stingers that provide rigidity, are simultaneously capable of damaging the boat where they bulge. Manufacturers even strengthen friction points with an additional layer of PVC fabric.

Small rowing boat

It is good to have a comfortable single boat for rafting on the river, and for fishing on small ponds. But it is bad that for such a boat is not provided for the manufacture of pail. Weight and dimensions, of course, decrease, making it convenient for transportation, but the advantages of having a hard deck are significantly more important than the advantages of delivery.

A bucket with a bait for a fisherman is constantly overturned at the slightest movement, under the oars the boat is extremely hard, rowing requires tremendous effort. There is no factory production for such a boat, therefore many fishermen are familiar with the manufacture of the soles themselves.

Materials

Waterproof (bakelite) plywood is too heavy for a small boat, and it is not easy to buy it. Therefore, the usual six-millimeter plywood must be processed from moisture, sawed exactly in size right in the store (in Leroy-Merlin, for example, there is such a service) to drive it was convenient. Do not be afraid of its subtleties. Checked by many - a sheet of six-millimeter plywood, linked with other sheets, except that it will not allow itself to jump. And standing in such a boat - at least with a lamp, even without it - is quite dangerous.

The protection of plywood from water is quite simple: a lot of modern impregnations and varnishes perfectly handle it. The usual impregnation, on top of the yacht lacquer in two layers - and the destruction of a few years will not be the slightest even on the edges of the plywood. In addition, you need to buy a few brushes, roller and spatula to smooth the fabric, as well as glue for PVC. It is better not to join the sheets in piyol - it is difficult to assemble, disassemble, the mass increases. It is better to glue the sheets with a PVC cloth. Glue and lacquer on the plywood perfectly connected. The cost of materials did not amount to more than a thousand rubles.

How to do it

The clearance with which the poyol enters the boat must be less than five millimeters, since the plywood is thin. Pulling the fabric across the inflated boat across the sides, you can measure the distance needed to cut out the wall. Minus two millimeters is the necessary width of the plywood sheet.

The length is measured exactly along the length of the bottom of the boat. To exclude all errors with the accuracy of repetition of contours on the nose and feed, it is better to first make a cardboard pattern. Further on the configuration you need to calculate how many sheets will consist of a poyol for this boat so that it can easily be assembled and packed in a car.

Lacquer

Next, you need to process the lateral joints and corners of the plywood, round off all the ends adjacent to the boat and docking, and then glued together with PVC cloth, to make all the corners along the radius. No sharp edges or angles should remain, because it is easy to damage the fabric of the boat itself, so it is necessary to treat all edges with fine sandpaper or sandpaper on the fabric.

Then the plywood is processed without passes on all sides with varnish. The drying lasts several days, after which, for better adhesion, the surface is again peeled from all sides, the sweating and other shortcomings are removed. The second coating is already done cleanly. Two layers are enough. You can make pajol colored, but you need to keep in mind that the light is less attractive to the sun, it will not be so hot. A few days the varnish will dry, after which it is already possible to start gluing the plywood sheets.

Adhesion

Very helpful in this case is an industrial dryer, which can heat the glue seam and remove the solvent. Bonding is strictly according to the instructions. The plywood sheets are arranged so that you can fold the flooring with an accordion. To do this, you need to unfold the plywood. When working with glue for PVC, correction of parts is impossible, so you need to pre-mark all positions in pencil.

Having connected details, it is necessary to roll up a fabric a platen or a spatula, to remove bubbles of air. When poyol is glued, it can not be tested immediately on water. At least three days the glue must stand and finally dry. As a result, pail is obtained by weighing about three to four kilograms, the weight of the whole set does not increase too much. It remains to wish a pleasant and successful holiday to those who were not afraid of difficulties. It is not so difficult to build a boat for a boat, but it's very exciting.