| Type | Fitted By | Description | Advantages | Disadvantages |
| Rubber Moulding | Various | Usually white rubber in a "U" or "D" shaped profile; usually secured with bolts or rivets. | - Cheap; easy to install
- Good protection in gunwale to gunwale impact
- Little maintenance.
- rarely tears or breaks
| - Bolts or rivets easily pull through
- Little protection from point impact (Bow/Gunwale); does not spread loads.
- Stretches and sags; looks shabby after a short time
- Hard to repair if damaged
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| Hardwood Moulding | Rondar | "L" shaped moulded hardwood; standard Rondar wooden gunwale fit; often secured with rivets. Later Rondar carried a simpler D shaped mounded hardwood. | - Easily Installed; particularly when riveted, however rivets are not advised!
- Looks great!
- Comfortable to hike
- Reasonably easy to repair; unless riveted.
| - Impact protection very limited; does not spread loads
- can crack and splinter easily
- repairs reduce effectiveness
- Expensive to replace the full length.
- requires maintenance.
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| Laminated Hardwood | Rondar and some schools | Double thickness of hardwood; glued and bolted around gunwale radius. | - Very strong, spreads impact load
- Looks great
- Can be repaired without reducing overall strength.
| - expensive and challenging to install
- can be uncomfortable to hike over
- can splinter in gunwale to gunwale rubs.
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Plastic Extrusion | Rondar | Solid plastic D shaped extrusion, only fitted to a small number of new flights in 2018 and also retrofitted to some. | - Looks good
- Cost effective
- easy to install
- appears strong in all types of impact
- will not splinter
| - May be subject to some stretch and sag?
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| Plastic and Rubber | Ovington | Fitted to early Ovington Boats.
A black plastic moulding which holds a black rubber insert
| - Looks Good
- Cost Effective
| Rubber Insert stretches in hiking area
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