Edge trim

Both members of the Chris Craft family represent great boats and the top of the food chain for their respective construction materials.

The trim on a fiberglass boat works like this...........along the side of the cabin on the port and starboard of the helm, the trim is fastened from behind. When this trim goes out onto the edge of the cabin roof, where it is covering a seam, it is impossible to get the fastener to work from behind, so it's screwed in and the screw remains visible...........until closure is achieved by a rubber trim piece that finishes up the assembly. The trim around the cabin roof (around the helm) has a J shape and it works as a rain gutter not really able to take much flow but can control some level of dripping. Since the cabin and helm edge trim is fastened from the outside with screws, they both take the same rubber finishing piece.

On the Roamer, being a welded metal boat, filled and ground smooth, there is no glue line that needed to be concealed. I suppose the Commander could have used the same kind of trim the Roamer used, just a crescent shaped extrusion that wraps similar edges, maybe covering a weld line, with fasteners remaining exposed like the edge of the rub rail.

Regards,

Paul