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Author Stiffining hull at bulkheads c-22
nick
monroe, mi

Boat Name: CAGE FREE

Model/Year: 1982 c-22

Hull No. 10900

Hailing Port: Bolles Harbor 		09/23/2017 7:38 AM Pacific Time
Anyone ever stiffened the hull by attaching bulkheads to the hull leaving a race way for water to get back to the bilge area? I think they are only attached to the liner with screws? I don't race OD with the boat I sail on Lake Erie and would think a stiffer hull at the chain plates would be better in the chop/higher winds less flexing and a bit less thunderous when pounding over the chop. They would be 1/2 marine plywood sister-ed up to the original bulkheads with a laminate layer or 1708 down/ through the liner and glassed to the hull with a fillet and 1708 cloth then chain-plates with longer bolts and a stainless backing plate on the other side installed?
 
 
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