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The original bow bulkhead was fastened top and bottom (deck and berth) with a couple rusty angle brackets. I moved the bulkhead forward two inches and used caulking to glue the bulkhead to the hull on both sides. Since the boat has no ribs, any bulkhead helps reduce hull noise. Plus, now my berth is 6 foot 2 inches!!!
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But my main anchor is now the smallest Vulcan. It launches and retrieves great, but without chain it is a little hard to set.
I added these little cheeks to my bow roller so that my lightweight Guardian anchor was far enough out to self launch.
The through-deck block gets a clam shell vent cover to keep rain out. In the background is the anchor rode that I was going to use, ready to be sent through the blocks using the string. I changed to using sinking "crab pot" line. That wasn't as heavy as I wanted, so I'm now using the sinking lead line that is used on the bottom of a gill net.
The original bow bulkhead was fastened top and bottom (deck and berth) with a couple rusty angle brackets. I moved the bulkhead forward two inches and used caulking to glue the bulkhead to the hull on both sides. Since the boat has no ribs, any bulkhead helps reduce hull noise. Plus, now my berth is 6 foot 2 inches!!!
Because of the new hawse pipe, the original EPS needed to be modified. Cutting EPS is generally really messy. So I used my heat gun (and adequate ventilation).
This is the cam cleat by the helm (again with a string instead of the anchor line). A regular cleat will be off to the right so that the anchor rode isn't held by only a cam cleat.
Below deck, there is a hawse pipe with an access hole in it by the lower thru-deck block that sends the anchor line aft under the V berth. I'm putting the original EPS foam flotation back in place after insulating the through deck fittings for the pulpit. The original EPS was just loose fitted, but I'm foaming them into place to help reduce the oil drum whanging sound of a fiberglass hull.
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The original bow bulkhead was fastened top and bottom (deck and berth) with a couple rusty angle brackets. I moved the bulkhead forward two inches and used caulking to glue the bulkhead to the hull on both sides. Since the boat has no ribs, any bulkhead helps reduce hull noise. Plus, now my berth is 6 foot 2 inches!!!

The original bow bulkhead was fastened top and bottom (deck and berth) with a couple rusty angle brackets. I moved the bulkhead forward two inches and used caulking to glue the bulkhead to the hull on both sides. Since the boat has no ribs, any bulkhead helps reduce hull noise. Plus, now my berth is 6 foot 2 inches!!!
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Here is the deck thru-hull block that sends the anchor line down the hawse pipe. It has a string in it for now.
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