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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Bulkheads and Hatches
By:Jay Babina
Date: 11/25/2002, 8:56 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Bulkheads and Hatches (Tom Yost)

There are skin boats that have forms - just like a bulkhead except that you cut the middle out leaving an inch of wood all around the outside. Then they have stringers that travel the length of the boat and pass over these forms in mortices. In this case all you would have to do is fill in the form opening with either a fabric or solid material with silcone adhesive calk.

When I speak of the water that skin boats take on, I don't mean leakage, I'm refering to the horrible event of a wet exit. I know from years of experience that the bulkhead boat is easier for and assisted drain or a self-pump out after reentry. Whereas the skin boat with float bags holds and enormous amount of water - not only since the bags don't come up close to the cockpit but also because of leakage past them. They're hard to drain, pumpout etc. Some low volume ones won't support a paddler doing a paddle float reentry without flooding to the cockpit lip (capacity).

If I had to - on a challenge make a bulkhead for my Greenland style kayak I would use fabric and tack it in with an exectric glue gun and calk the he-- out of it with the best adhesive, flexible calk I could find filling in the gaps around ribs etc. The main problem would be the front one getting in or working through a front hatch opening of some type.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Bulkheads and Hatches
Ron Friedman -- 11/23/2002, 6:54 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Bulkheads and Hatches
Shawn Baker -- 11/24/2002, 1:09 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Bulkheads and Hatches
Jay Babina -- 11/24/2002, 7:27 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Bulkheads and Hatches
Tom Yost -- 11/24/2002, 10:08 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Bulkheads and Hatches
Jay Babina -- 11/25/2002, 8:56 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Bulkheads and Hatches
Rick Allnutt -- 11/25/2002, 11:29 am
Keep in mind that Pavia's boat...
Brian Nystrom -- 11/25/2002, 1:35 pm
Re: Keep in mind that Pavia's boat...
Greg Stamer -- 11/25/2002, 3:37 pm
Hmmm, that should be interesting.
Brian Nystrom -- 11/25/2002, 4:14 pm
Re: Hmmm, that should be interesting.
Greg Stamer -- 11/25/2002, 4:44 pm
Re: Hmmm, that should be interesting.
Shawn Baker -- 11/25/2002, 5:29 pm
Re: Could be Done ... Waterproof ??
Rehd -- 11/23/2002, 11:25 am
Re: Could be Done ... Waterproof ??
Travis Kinchen -- 11/23/2002, 11:32 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Bulkheads and Hatches
sing -- 11/23/2002, 8:22 am