Cut a piece of cardboard slightly smaller than the rough shape. Tape smaller bits of cardboard around the perimeter to fill in the gaps around the edges. Cut a piece of cardboard slightly larger than the rough shape. Slide it in as far as possible--trim off where it's tight, and refit it. Trim the new tight spot until you're against the original bulkhead. Lying a the body of a pencil flat against the hull or deck and scribing around the template will give you a line an even 1/8" all the way around. Fit your plywood bulkhead to the cockpit side of the original plastic bulkhead--that's the size you're going to mount it to anyway. If you can't get a wire or cardboard template out, you're certainly not going to be able to get a plywood bulkhead in! >I think that is what I'll end up doing. What is the best (or easiest) >way to figure out the dimensions of the bulkhead? I was thinking >bending a piece of bailing wire and going of that. Well, considering >the hatch it would probably have to be four pieces of wire. What >solutions have people used? -- Shawn W. Baker 0 46°53'N © 2000 ____©/______ 114°06'W ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ baker_at_montana.com 0 http://www.geocities.com/shawnkayak/ *************************************************************************** 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 - 14:40:08 PDT
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