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Re: Balancing Gear
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 6/10/2009, 3:40 pm
In Response To: Balancing Gear (Michael Collins)

: Good call. I'll have hatches both fore and aft, but have to decide whether to
: make one bigger than the other. The bow has more room, but it also needs
: to rise over waves. Should it be balanced 50/50, 60/40, 70/30 one way or
: another or what?

: Some bungies in the storage compartment might be a nice way of keeping stuff
: from moving around, but there might be so little room that everything will
: be snug anyway.

: I'm planning on installing fabric bulkheads. I'm planning on using dacron, so
: it should be easy to just glue them in place.

Just finishing a SOF with bulkheads and hatches, was to have fabric bulkheads too but it's very time consuming and I just gave up on that. Yes it can be done, it's not quite as simple as you make it out to be though. They have to seal to each stringer/gunwale/keel etc. as well as to the hull fabric. Lots of fiddly work, not by a long shot impossible. I'd do the hull part before the deck was covered at least for the forward bulkhead btw.

I used ply sections in the frame tops and conventional hatches btw, works well, just adds weight.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF *Pic*
Michael Collins -- 6/8/2009, 11:10 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Aaron H -- 6/9/2009, 3:36 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Michael Collins -- 6/9/2009, 10:39 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Aaron H -- 6/10/2009, 6:11 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Brian Scaborough -- 6/10/2009, 10:21 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
John D. -- 6/10/2009, 3:02 pm
The Long Boat Myth *LINK* *Pic*
Kudzu -- 6/9/2009, 7:43 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Mike Savage -- 6/11/2009, 7:01 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Johne -- 6/11/2009, 12:08 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Michael -- 6/11/2009, 10:23 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth *Pic*
Allan -- 6/11/2009, 3:54 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Bill Hamm -- 6/11/2009, 9:50 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/11/2009, 11:56 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Michael Collins -- 6/11/2009, 1:58 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/11/2009, 5:33 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Bill Hamm -- 6/13/2009, 1:23 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Terry Haines -- 6/18/2009, 11:45 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Bill Hamm -- 6/19/2009, 11:39 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
John F Monroe -- 6/24/2009, 5:42 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Terry Haines -- 6/19/2009, 6:33 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Bill Hamm -- 6/11/2009, 1:26 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/11/2009, 7:42 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Allan -- 6/11/2009, 8:02 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/11/2009, 9:19 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
West -- 6/11/2009, 4:23 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Allan -- 6/11/2009, 7:45 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Ken Brunton -- 6/10/2009, 11:13 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/10/2009, 1:40 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Michael Collins -- 6/10/2009, 2:16 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/10/2009, 7:52 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Bill Hamm -- 6/10/2009, 3:44 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Michael Collins -- 6/9/2009, 10:26 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/10/2009, 8:33 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/10/2009, 8:49 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/10/2009, 1:08 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/11/2009, 10:35 am
Hey Nick
Kudzu -- 6/12/2009, 10:18 am
Single change??
Allan -- 6/12/2009, 6:47 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/11/2009, 12:04 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Glen Smith -- 6/9/2009, 8:16 pm
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Kudzu -- 6/10/2009, 8:17 am
Re: The Long Boat Myth
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/10/2009, 8:57 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Bill Hamm -- 6/9/2009, 1:15 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Brian Scaborough -- 6/9/2009, 8:32 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
wwfloyd -- 6/10/2009, 7:47 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Bill Hamm -- 6/11/2009, 1:00 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF *LINK* *Pic*
Tom Yost -- 6/9/2009, 10:24 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Bill Hamm -- 6/9/2009, 8:28 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Tom Yost -- 6/10/2009, 12:41 am
LMAO!
Robert N Pruden -- 6/9/2009, 2:43 pm
Re: LMAO! *Pic*
Tom Yost -- 6/9/2009, 6:13 pm
Re: LMAO!
Bill Hamm -- 6/9/2009, 8:30 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Brian Scaborough -- 6/9/2009, 10:40 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Michael Collins -- 6/9/2009, 11:11 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Brian Scaborough -- 6/10/2009, 1:00 pm
Balancing Gear
Michael Collins -- 6/10/2009, 2:01 pm
Re: Balancing Gear
Bill Hamm -- 6/10/2009, 3:40 pm
Re: Balancing Gear *LINK*
Brian Scaborough -- 6/10/2009, 2:27 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF *Pic*
Tom Yost -- 6/9/2009, 11:01 am
I've done that, too, but only with the Guinness.
Robert N Pruden -- 6/9/2009, 2:46 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Fast, Playful SOF
Brian Scarborough -- 6/9/2009, 12:00 am
Rider, Ranger?
Michael Collins -- 6/9/2009, 11:07 pm
Re: Rider, Ranger?
Bill Hamm -- 6/10/2009, 2:27 am