Posted by Dru Addison on January 17, 2003 at 08:11:03:
In Reply to: foam floatation posted by ernie on January 14, 2003 at 08:33:53:
: hi, boatbuilding wannabe here so forgive my naive question. im thinking of one day in the near future building a small veebottom mini cruiser with enough room in the hull for a bunk. however, im not quite up to speed on how the foam comes into play.
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: >i'll give you the way i think it would work and if someone could tell me what im missing it would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
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: >as follows: i would create a berth deck inside the hull. under this berth deck (the actuall hull bottom) would be the bulkheads where the various "boxes" are partitioned off. in these boxes i would place fitted watertight boxes filled with foam. this sounds crazy to me but its the only thing i can come up with at this point. it must sound really naive but im trying to learn :-) thanks.
: > I would use inertubes and inflate them to fit in the space.