If you were drying out at a beach, you may want to check for any sharp pointy rocks directly undef the hulls.
Also the impact from feet on the floor inside may want extra layer of glass and foam?

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On Fri, 15/3/19, 'Peter Southwood' peter.southwood@telkomsa.net [harryproa] <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:

Subject: RE: [harryproa] Re:: Flat bottom hulls?
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
Received: Friday, 15 March, 2019, 2:27 PM


 









Double bottom is a
safety feature on many large commercial vessels, so it is
used. They are also usually flat bottoms, both inside and
out.  Really nice if you get a hole in your bottom that the
water stops at the inner bottom. Does it happen often?  Not
so much. If you go for a thicker core and a bit of Kevlar in
the inner skin, it is unlikely that most impacts will cause
uncontrollable flooding. Bilges are shit places to store
stuff, as if they are easy to access, they will get water in
from the top, and are a bitch to keep clean and dry and
smelling acceptable, and are usually a terrible shape for
storage and cleaning They tend to be a place where the water
pipes and electrical cabling get put in close proximity. Not
a bad place for tankage, but this also has its problems.
Cheers, Peter
 From: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
[mailto:harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au]
Sent: 15 March 2019 01:47
To: Harryproa
Subject: Re: [harryproa] Re:: Flat
bottom hulls?   

| Another thing to consider about V bottom and
round bottom hulls is the value of the bilge space.   A
flat bottom offers little or no useful space in the bilge
for tankage, and other stowage....

What horse crap! If you see huge value in a
bilge, add a fake one. It is hella cheaper to add a
removable floor to an easy to build cheap and light hull.

| This is not insignificant,
as deep down is the ideal location for such thing as liquids
and batteries, and other heavy stuff.  Built in tankage is
also insurance if you run onto a coral head, and rip into
the bottom......

Ya, all
the guys checking the latest boats are all checking out the
critically important BILGE volume.

| it can prevent the main hull(s) from
flooding.  The entire bilge in a Deep V or round bottom
hull could be sealed, with watertight access ports, and
ideally each bulkhead would make a separate compartment
without any connection to the adjacent compartments.

I don't know any sailors
looking for water tight bilge as a safety feature. But,
perhaps I can learn a thing. I would imagine the crush zones
on the HP would take the hit fine. And are probably are
considered by most as a kind of belts and suspenders
protection, but I don't know

Does any list reader care to instruct me in the
value of a water tight bilge?  Virus-free. www.avg.com

 









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