: I'm building a Pygmy Coho and getting started on the hatches and bulkheads.
: The instructions call for glassing both sides of the plywood bulkhead and
: then using glass tape to attach the bulkheads to the boat. I'm tempted to
: simply put a couple of coats of epoxy on the bulkheads and then glue them
: in place making a nice fillet on each side.

: I've found there is often a good reason that the instructions say to do a
: task a certain way but in the case it seems like overkill. I read the
: minicell versus plywood bulkhead discussion a while back realized that
: there are some on this board that will tell me that minicell is the way to
: go. But I've decided on plywood for certain.

: If I skip the glassing and taping am I headed for trouble?

: -DaveW Hi Dave,Last year when my brother-in-law (GRAY), and I were building 'my' COHO, we fiberglassed the bulkheads but we chose not to use FG tape as directed by Pygmy. We did use the thickened epoxy to make fillet but on one side (forward facing) we made a batch of epoxy with short lenghts of cut fiberglass(there is a name for this FG) mixed in it.With this,we made a very strong (structurally) bond - Bulkhead-to-Hull. I would recommend this method, my brother-in-law was very pleased with our addded strength fillet. I did put anothercoat of epoxy over this fillet (after I sanded the stray fibers which were sticking out) to give it a smooth appearance. Have any relatives in the UP? Wayne g.