For creating a template of the front bulkhead - I agree that it's **very** much easier to do this through the cockpit, and with the boat inverted at approximately shoulder height. Often it's possible to invert the boat easily by hanging it in your cellar, in your garage, etc.... RE: the bailing wire....(<Now the bailing wire should work.>) There's an inexpensive, neat tool readily available from art supply houses, and also from Staples, Office Depot, etc. It's called a "draftsman's curve". It's a malleable rectangle about an inch in width and from12 to 18 inches in length. It can be bent around a curve or an angle and then it will hold that shape fairly well, for transfer to a cardboard or paper pattern. OTOH - my own limited experience in making bulkheads is that it's just as easy to tape together several pieces of cardboard, making a rough pattern, and then transfer that (slightly *larger* than you think you'll want) to a second piece of cardboard, and then whittle that rough pattern down with a utility knife. You can get a very accurate pattern that way in just a few minutes' time. Bill Hansen Ithaca NY *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 15 2000 - 14:36:46 PDT
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