Re: [Paddlewise] Installing a new bulkhead

4. Necky uses a sealant product named "Lexel" for their ethafoam type
bulkheads.  I wouldn't use a silicon sealant.  My experience is this type of
new bulkhead will leak though.

I'm considering just filling my void front cockpit space with closed cell foam.

Fred

Product Information Department wrote:

> Hi fellow paddle fiends,
> I know the general pros and cons of bulkheads were discussed awhile back:
> foolishly I did not save the postings. I'm considering removing a existing
> forward bulkhead in my fibreglass/Kevlar vinylester resin kayak, and
> installing a new one further aft. The advantages I see are two-fold: more
> usable cargo space, and reduced cockpit flooding in the event of a wet
> exit. Neither of these benefits will materialise unless the new bulkhead is
> as solid and watertight as the existing, factory-installed one is.
> So suggestions welcomed on:
>
> 1. Materials for the bulkhead itself. The existing bulkhead is a moulded
> plastic, and I would prefer a somewhat flexible material so that there some
> "give" lest the bulkhead lever itself loose and/or act as a "stress riser"
> that weakens the hull. I'm considering the flexible Minicell foam used in
> some plastic boats, but wondering whether it gets gouged by loose cargo.
>
> 2. Suggestions on how to make a template for the bulkhead and getting the
> tightest fit possible.
>
> 3. Appropriate glues/sealants to hold the bulkhead in place. For the same
> reasons of flex discussed in part 1 above, I'm not keen on glassing it in.
> I've used Sika-Flex sealant very successfully on smaller through-deck and
> through-hull fittings. Any ideas or experience with this or other products?
>
> 4. Reputable, reasonable sources in the Vancouver, BC, area who might do
> the whole thing for me?
>
> Breathlessly waiting being deluged by the fountain of knowledge that is
> PaddleWise.
>
> Philip Torrens
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> employer, or indeed, of any sentient being."
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