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Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 12/12/2015, 8:38 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical (BDkayak)

The air pressure tends to do that, but the boat will usually float even with the cockpit full of water high enough that the bleed hole is above the water. The reason for putting it in the middle of the bulkhead, so it does the same thing if the boat's up-side-down.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
BDkayak -- 12/11/2015, 2:54 am
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
Paul Sylvester -- 12/11/2015, 4:09 am
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
JohnAbercrombie -- 12/11/2015, 1:24 pm
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
Paul Sylvester -- 12/11/2015, 4:13 am
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
Dan -- 12/11/2015, 10:29 am
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
Bill Hamm -- 12/11/2015, 10:59 am
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
BDkayak -- 12/11/2015, 12:42 pm
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
Bill Hamm -- 12/12/2015, 8:38 am
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
John K -- 12/11/2015, 5:41 am
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
Bill Hamm -- 12/11/2015, 8:27 am
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
JohnAbercrombie -- 12/11/2015, 1:35 pm
Re: Strip: bulkheads need to be vertical
Bob Johns -- 12/11/2015, 5:20 pm