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Re: S&G: VENTING HATCHES
By:Alex Ferguson
Date: 5/2/2011, 5:39 am
In Response To: S&G: VENTING HATCHES (john faas)

: Need to ask for help from those with more experience. I am building
: a CLC Arctic Hawk, nearing the time to put the deck on at last.
: Instructions call for a 3/32" hole to be drilled center top
: of both bulkheads to vent pressure.

I put a 2 mm hole in the centre of the bulkhead (not top). This should place the hole above water which ever way up the kayak is. The holes are for pressure relief. A hot kayak on the beach being dropped into cold water (when launched) has to do something to the internal air pressure.

Alex

Messages In This Thread

S&G: VENTING HATCHES
john faas -- 5/2/2011, 12:33 am
Re: S&G: VENTING HATCHES
Reg Lake -- 5/2/2011, 1:34 am
Re: S&G: VENTING HATCHES
Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/2/2011, 3:03 am
Re: S&G: VENTING HATCHES
Alex Ferguson -- 5/2/2011, 5:39 am
Re: S&G: VENTING HATCHES
Brian Nystrom -- 5/2/2011, 6:55 am