On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:41 AM, LucD <lucjdekeyser@telenet.be> wrote:
You taught me to abhor holes in the hull: as the beam is not pulled all the way through the ww hull, what about gluing a female mold of the beam end in the form of a cup on the external side of the hull instead of creating holes?
The reason for the hole is to use the hull as support. A cup would require a bulkhead. The hole is well above the water line and is well reinforced (tow in the infusion, very tricky). If there was a bulkhead already there, then the cup would be a better solution. Would also be better to go through to the other side, but that would make access to the bunks tricky. Parallel beams would have solved that, but keeping the big tramp tight would be almost as much load as flying a hull.
Mischa,
Thanks. I agree.
rob
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