Piomarine
Well-known member
I recently acquired an old family heirloom, a 14" Arkansas Traveler (date unknown). The boat was bought new by my wife's great grandfather. I have already started the deconstruction phase and successfully removed the seats and most of the rotted oak gunwales. Before I get too far along I wanted to reach out to the community regarding replacing rivets in the reconstruction phase. I have been doing a little reading on these threads and have found a few people saying that rivets should either be solid rivets with washers or all rivets simply replaced with bolts. My question is simply this, I want to use rivets in the reconstruction but I am not equipped to use solid rivets. Has anyone ever looked into the use of 2 piece mate-rivets in place of solid rivets for fastening parts below the water-line (namely the transom and related hardware.) I will begin posting pictures of my progress soon. All suggestions and recommendations are welcomed and encouraged.
For those that don't know a mated rivet is a 2 piece rivet with a sealed and capped receiving tube on one side and a basic mandrel type blind rivet on the other. If I were to use this system with the mandrel on the inside of the boat would this theoretically work long term?
For those that don't know a mated rivet is a 2 piece rivet with a sealed and capped receiving tube on one side and a basic mandrel type blind rivet on the other. If I were to use this system with the mandrel on the inside of the boat would this theoretically work long term?