Cliff and GL:
OK, here's some sexy foam and forward bulkhead pics....
I finally refinished my forward bulkhead planks and put them up. Was halfway thru when I remembered that I wanted to show y'all a close-up of the foam blocks filling the forepeak:
- Styrofoam
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These are just big styrofoam blocks, cut to fit (more or less) and held in place by planking. There are three "cleats" glassed onto the interior for holding the planks in place - the white one under the deck, for a vertical center plank, and the two grey cleats in the bilges for holding a crosswise-plank, right below the shelf. Everything else screws to those. No attachments to the styrofoam itself, those just sit there. Here's the finished product, it was getting late/dark so I boosted the photo exposure, don't take these colors literally:
- Forward Bulkhead 1957
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For what it's worth, my floorboards are original and just this side of unsalvageable. I gave them a quick once-over with the orbital sander, will think about repairing, rebuilding, or replacing over the winter. Depends on my tolerance for actual work (very low, let me tell you!). We shall see.
Tom
P.S. Yes, GreenLake, those "cleats" might be "stringers," especially the one under the deck which is long enough to be a structural reinforcement rather than merely there to hold the center plank.