Betsie Bay kayaks has a neat detail where they basically have a removable rear bulkhead. You cut an exact-size bulkhead, and cut the middle out (leaving a 1.5" or 2" wide ring that you glass into the hull aft the cockpit).

You then cut another bulkhead (the "hatch cover") that is about 1/4" smaller all the way around. You can simply use thumbscrews through the hatch cover into T-nuts in the glassed-in ring.

Fit anything you want in there!

Shawn

: I intend to make the hatches for a guillemot only in the bulkheads. I need
: the one in the bow only to inspect and dry out any droplets that get in
: there. I will use the one in the back-of-the-cockpit bulkhead to store
: lunch and small stuff. I do not intend to camp out of the guillemot.

: Intent is to make plywood or wood strip bulkheads this time instead of
: Minicel® to try out that technique. I have not run over any rocks
: which would have punched through the kayak if I had stiff bulkheads, so I
: will try them out.

: Because the bulkheads are not going to be visible on the deck, they do not
: need to be flush. They are on flat surfaces so I assume they can be simple
: flat plates on flatbulkheads where the plate is larger than the hole in
: the bulkhead and there is gasket material surrounding the outside edge of
: the flat plate.

: What great ideas have y'all come up with to hold bulkheads down? Internal
: bungees seem unnecessarially complicated for this. Screw down holders?
: Twirl down latches? What...

: I am open to all ideas and suggestions.

: Rick