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Old 01-20-2008
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Originally Posted by sailaway21 View Post
While expensive due to the construction techniques required, an aluminum topsides could be entirely feasible. (i probably should have said, prohibitively expensive!)
My pilothouse has an aluminum "lid" or roof for this reason, but the sides are steel. The key (particularly as wiring is run through said roof) is to isolate the metals from one another as much as possible, just as one would using steel bolts on an aluminum mast.
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