Re: foam floatation


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Posted by Lennart Langstrom on January 14, 2003 at 11:23:58:

In Reply to: foam floatation posted by ernie on January 14, 2003 at 08:33:53:

Hi.

You may want to place the floatation as high up as possible, in order to keep the boat right side up even if filled with water. Also think about placing a lot of floatation at the transom, motors are kind of heavy. Good luck.

Kind regards

Lennart

: 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.
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