Huh, so all that styrofoam was *supposed* to be in there?? Hm. I took it all out of the bow locker and used it for storage. What kind of closed cell foam are you planning on using? Perhaps I should replace it... On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM, W David Scobie <wdscobie@yahoo.com> wrote:
on my old 15 the foam in the bow was a mix of blocks 'arranged' to fit. the foam filled 4/5 of the space.
the 'stern' foam was one large block that fit between hull and the floor of the cockpit. the block fit snug against the partial 'bulkhead' that runs just aft of the cabin, and was 4 or 5 inches from reaching all the way to the stern.
there are some pictures if you take the 'slideshow tour' of an M15 on my old boat's www-site -
http://www.freewebs.com/m15-named-scred
dave scobie M17 #375 - SWEET PEA visit SWEET PEA's www-site - http://www.m17-375.webs.com
--- On Wed, 10/21/09, mrh219@yahoo.com <mrh219@yahoo.com> wrote:
While putting my m-15 away for the winter, I finally opened up the bow compartment and found that there was no flotation foam under the cover. I had already noticed that there was no foam at the stern. I am planning to put in two part closed cell foam in the spring, and wonder if anyone has an opinion as to how much foam I will need, or how much weight I need to calculate to determine how much foam. Research seems to show that you don't need pound for pound for fiberglass, but you do for metal such as ballast, motors and spars. So how many cubic feet of foam floats an m-15?
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