...a short teak two piece railing that follows the contour of the bridge sides of the bridge.
Pretty easy really and requires no lamination or steam binding... Since the curvature is fairly shallow, and the thickness of the wood strips are 3/4" or less, wet bending is a suitable substitute for steam bending.
Cut the four strips about 3" longer than will be needed, round over the long corners with a suitable router round over bit, (radius = 1/2 the thickness of the strip).
Make a poly tube using heavy weight black plastic sheeting and duct tape. Make the tube large enough to loosely contain the 4 strips and about 1 foot longer than the strips.
Insert the strips, roll and tape up one end of the bag, fill with water, roll and tape up the remaining end. Leave it in direct sunlight for a full day and over night. The wood will soak up enough moisture to make it pliable enough to form the shallow curves needed.
Work the base strips first, keeping the top strips wrapped and wet.
Configure and screw the base strips to the boat. Screws placed where the standoffs will hide them. Allow the strip to fully dry, screwed into place.
Make up the 6 standoffs, drill and screw into place on the base strip.
Configure the top strip, (still wet), and screw onto the standoffs. Let them fully dry.
After a couple of days of drying, disassemble the parts, sand all parts through 360 grit and re-assemble off of the boat, making sure that all of the screw holes re-align as the were on the boat. Check for fit on the boat.
When satisfied that the fit is good, epoxy and screw the pieces together. The bottom strip will be screwed, (counter sink for a flush surface), from underneath up into the standoffs. The top strip will be screwed from the top, through both the standoffs and the base strip. There will only be three to four screws on the top strip which will be countersunk and bunged.
Initial varnish work will be done in the shop.
For the base varnish work, use through bolts and leave the bungs out. Once all the initial varnish work is done, remove the through bolts, chase out the bung holes, & install the railing on the boat with screws. Use a bedding compound between the wood and the boat. Insert the bungs very, very slightly below the top surface. Scuff up the varnish and do your finish varnish with a minimum of 4 coats.
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