King Starboard Handrails -- Stock & custom sizes up to 96" LOA. If you're looking for a practical, affordable alternative to traditional teak handrails (and to all the upkeep they require), this may be your answer.

We have designed these King Starboard rails to provide a beefy gripping surface and to withstand heavy lateral shock loading that can lead to failure in smaller, weaker handrails. Our rails are fabricated entirely from 1" thick stock and are 1-1/2" wide on the gripping surface -- with no sharp edges anywhere. The mounting bases are built up of interlocking 1" King Starboard blocks that are inset into the main rail body. All rail loop components are pre-drilled for 1/4" diameter fasteners at their centers with precision accuracy, and are ready for through-bolting at your mounting location.

1- To 7-Loop Stock Rail Sizes

Our King Starboard hand rails are available in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7-loop sizes, ranging from 14-3/8" to 75-3/8" long. Regardless of which size you buy, the ends of each rail extend 1" beyond the outermost loop bases -- and all loop bases measure 10-1/8" center-to-center

The hand rails' gripping surface is 1' thick and 1-1/2" wide. Distance from your mounting surface to the underside of these rails is 1-1/4", and the overall rail height is 2-1/4".

Custom Rail Sizes To Your Specs

We offer two types of custom King Starboard hand rails:

• Using our basic stock design, we can produce 8 or 9-loop rails on request. These rails have loop bases that measure 10-1/8" center-to-center. Length overall for an 8-loop rail is 85-1/2" & LOA for the 9-loop rail is 95-5/8".
• We can also fabricate rails with loop sizes tailored to your requirements. You simply need to specify the center-to-center distance for your loop bases and tell us how many loops you want in each rail, and we'll do the rest -- making it a simple matter for you to replace your old hand rails with new ones that match the original mounting holes. Click this link to request a custom hand rail price quote.

Our stock rails range from 14-3/8” to 75-3/8" length overall. Individual rail loops measure 10-1/8" center-to-center, and each base is pre-drilled for 1/4" fasteners (through-bolting is strongly recommended).

These King Starboard hand rails offer a wider & thicker gripping surface and significantly greater resistance to lateral shock-loading than traditional teak hand rails.

Using half a dozen heavy blows with a 10 lb sledge, we did our level best to destroy this 1-loop King Starboard hand rail. And while the stress bent and dinged the starboard, it remained intact -- unlike the teak rail shown below.

A single blow from that 10 lb sledge did this to a through-bolted, standard 1-loop teak hand rail. Granted, the lateral shock on this rail was extreme -- but was just a fraction of that applied to our King Starboard rail.