Today is bulkhead day. The first step was to remember where the heck I planned to put the bulkheads. One between station 11 and 12, the other at station 7. So I started with the easy one -- between stations 11 and 12. I decided it would be a good idea to outline both forms 11 and 12 on the minicel foam I'm using for bulkheads. Then I just shave it down to the lines, and then shave to fit.

Here you can see the bulkhead in the boat. This is behind the cockpit. It fits fairly well. There are a few gaps, but that'll be easy enough to fill up with the caulk/glue/whatever that I'm gonna shoot in there.

This is kind of a crappy picture, but it's all I've got. Here you can see the schmutz sealing up the crack. It's some funky silicone glue/sealant junk in a decent sized squeeze tube that I found at Home Despot (yes, that's the way I spell it) in the paint aisle. This is from the hatch side, not the cockpit side.

Next up: The world's ugliest bulkhead. Good thing this isn't visible from the outside. I ended up with two major gaps on this side of the bulkhead. Complicating the problem is that this side of the bulkhead is 3-4 feet inside the boat. Here I used this silicone sealant/filler goop caulk-like junk. It was a caulk-like tube so I loaded it in the caulk gun. The challenge was getting to the bulkhead. I ended up taking the boat to the front lawn and sitting it on the grass. Then I crawled in head-first (with a respirator on -- that goop is toxic). I could only fit my head and one arm in, so did the one-armed paper-hanger gambit and just did the best I could. Stretching out, I could barely reach the bulkhead with my index finger. Thankfully, I thought ahead and slapped some plastic down there. Much goop was prevented from hitting the interior. In addition, I found that paint thinner did a good job of cleaning that stuff up from any other visible area. Yeah, it's kinda sloppy looking. I don't know that I could've done better, though. I do know that if my neighbors were watching, they would've had a pretty good show. It must've been a funny sight.

Here's that bulkhead from the hatch side. Much neater, eh?

Waitaminute! What the?! Is that rigging?! You betcha! Both hatches and an area behind the cockpit. I even put in the seat -- it's a seat I ordered awhile back, but don't really like. It's more a pad than a seat. I just duct-taped it so I can rip it up later when I put a real seat in.

From the back. I still need to deal with grab-loops (gonna just tie some rope in there for the time being) and, as mentioned above, the seat. But other than that ... WOO HOO!!