I'm in the process of re doing my cuddy. I have noticed that the bulk heads that separate the nose/bed, and the bed/couch, don't have any fiberglass around the edges to hold them in place. They are just placed there and free to move. I always bump them and have to reset them.

I was thinking about just fiber glassing around the edges to the floor, sidewall and ceiling. Is there any issues with doing this? Anyone else had to do this? It seems like it would add more strength, but I just want to make sure I'm not doing something that will cause other problems.

In the pictures below you can see no glass around the edges of the wood to hold them in place:



The front bulkhead has some around the bottom edges but not across the top:


dean

I don't think there is any good reason why it shouldn't be tabbed in, but wait for Dave to way in on this.
Should your deck need to flex that much??..........there are a few 233 owners here that could just check
their bulkheads to report on what they see..

Thats odd, never see a bulkhead just floating like that. Yeah i would tab those in for sure, man i cant think of a reason they would not have done it from the factory. Make sure you scuff the surface with 36 real good and roughly six inch or so tabbing (i actually prefer using different widths like 6 and 8 inch). To make life easy do them in pre cut lengths and wet them out on a piece of cardboard first then install them. Easier to balance the ratio and less mess installing. I actually do them outside the boat and roll them up an put them in a pan or something, gotta work quick though in mass the resin will want to kick.

Thanks guys, I couldn't see a reason why they shouldn't be tabbed in. It didn't come like this from the factory. Someone added the bulkheads later because the factory just had a pole there from what I understand.

Thanks for the tips as always glassdave! How many layers do you think I should use?

Dean

I would fillet all the corners with epoxy & cab-o-sil mix (peanut butter consistancy) then cut strips of 17oz. double bias (kyntex) in 6" and 8" strips
tab them in going from small to large...............like dave said: you can wet them out on a piece of cardboard (outside of the boat) roll them up
then glass them into place ..much neater and less mess............I like epoxy it's stronger and will flex before breaking...great for tabbing bulkheads
to underside of deck.

Thanks again guys, I got this mostly wrapped up. Not too bad of a job. I think it really helped sturdy things up and now the bulk heads don't move around. I was having fun until I started on the ceiling pieces, that's a whole new game.

Hopefully I can get the new headliner and sidewall material in soon and test her out. Only another month or so up here...

what he said.

overhead fiberglass work is muy unpleasant.

theres a trick to doing overhead pieces
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So what's the trick?

Flip the boat upside down?