Fun with foam ...
I'm considering re-filling the "air tanks" in my 1971 O'Day built DS1 (3501) with foam. The idea at this point is to remove the pop bottles (see below) clean out what remains of the original styrofoam and pour in two part poly-urethane foam.
I want to achieve several goals:
*get full bouyancy benefit from the tanks (the spaces between the pop bottles will not displace water should it enter the tank)
*add stiffness to the hull
Has anyone tried this?
Comments?
On Jul 21, 1998 Jerry Plante (previous owner of 3501) wrote: I removed the soggy wet styrofoam floation from inside the seats and the bow tank last winter. It weighed 50 pounds!!! I've heard of it weighing as much as 100. I put a 6 inch "inspection" port in each tank and have been stuffing empty plastic Coke and Gatorade bottles in them all season.
Gary Tabor (ratracer-at-rust.net)