More Bulk heads and cross beams.

 

While tedious its well worth cutting the bulkheads perfectly, a 1/8 of an inch smaller or so, the purpose of cutting them smaller is to eliminate the possibility of a sharp spot contacting the hull and exerting pressure in one spot. Its like a women’s high heel on your foot although she only weights 120lbs that weight compressed into a 1/4 inch area feels like 1000lbs. Better to spread the pressure out like a magician laying on a bed of nails instead of all in one spot.

So what ends up happening here is the fiberglass tabs that are eventually used to hold to the bulkheads in place will spread the pressure out evenly along with and in conjunction with either caulking  the bulkheads in or fileting using thicken resin, this will ensure there's no chance of to much pressure in any one spot.



In my case I only have a few weeks to get this done due to the weather turning to cold to glass I will skip the filleting process since this is a very light hull. I did use Loctite marine (a similar product to 3m 5200 marine) on the bottom and side edges of the bulkheads.


 You will also notice from the pictures I have been coating the edges of the bulks heads with resin to make sure they are sealed from moisture. 2-3 coats on all the edges is optimal.