This box arrived in the post yesterday. It contains a 'foredeck' and enough wood to repair the holes.. Quite impressive for such a little box.
Work commitments last week meant that my planned leave didn't quite happen as planned so there wasn't much progress made. Hopefully I'll get a few hours in the garage over the weekend.
However I did get my first blog comment which was rather nice, so nice I've copied it below. Thanks Mike.
' Reading your notes on SR with interest. The bulkhead is very thin ply and was warped when I got her. The front compartment was full of water! As the bulkhead is clearly not structural you could consider removing entirely and using a bow bag for buoyancy however this does increase the flooded area in case of capsize and may reduce efficiency of transom flaps. Mike'
Despite work getting in the way of progress I did get to do some more poking around at the bulkhead. It would be easy to remove but difficult to replace without joining a couple of pieces at the same time as fitting it. I'm not sure I want to go down the route of having no bow tank for the reasons Mike's outlined above. More thinking's required before I commit to that particular job.
Fingers crossed for some decent progress soon!
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