Yankee 30 Message Board
Yankee 30 Message Board
Posted by Bill on 5/30/2004, 10:53 am, in reply to "interior modifications (sazzall ready)" I was also wondering what the removal of the lower 1/3 of the forward bulkhead would give you. Are you going to give up the head for the old oaken bucket. Gee, if you could pull that whole forward port bulkhead out you could get a pipeberth to port and to starboard and have some great storage beneath them. You could then put the "old oaken bucket" or a conventional head up in the "v". Great racing arrangment but questionable where cruising with the two couples is concerned. I cruised a Cal 28 and it came apart , fracturing the glass along the forward bulkhead and along the turn of the bilge forward. It didn't sink but I had to keep pumpng for ten minutes or so an hour. The problem was that the boat pounded when coming off of tradewind waves. I have not experienced pounding on my boat but have not had it in tradewind conditions. Just because of my experience with the Cal boat I would give serious consideration to adding longitudinal stringers if I removed that lower 1/3rd. Sometimes it's hard to make a good thing better but I sure do love to sit around thinkings of ways to do it. Have fun! bill
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: I'm thinking of opening up my interior in the
: forward part of the boat and I'm interested
: in any comments from other owners.
: What I'm thinking about doing is removing the
: bottom third of the bulkhead between the head
: area and the forepeak (not the main bulkhead
: next to the mast). I'm also thinking about
: cutting away the fibreglass under the
: forepeak in order to get access to that area.
: I currently have an insert for the forepeak
: and want to keep that intact but I would like
: to store sails and other junk underneath.
: I've done lots of modifications to the boat
: but I'm concerned this may have some
: structural effect that I need to be aware
: about. Has anyone messed around with this or
: have any thoughts? I'll be sharpening my
: blades for awhile before I dig in so I have
: some time to think about it.
: Thanks - Bob
: Seawitch
:
Bob,
Just sitting here thinking about the bulkheads and began to wonder if the main(structural?) bulkhead is really aft of the mast. Looking at the set of drawers starboard of the mast I would have to think that they were not structural, whereas the forward bulkhead goes all the way across. Might this be more structural?
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