[Rhodes22-list] Why Use Two Support Columns Per Cockpit Seat Vs. Only One per Seat?

[Steve Alm]

Roger,

Why didn't you just put some kind of support above the lazarette bulkhead
where it meets the seat in order to make the bulkhead a support rather than
putting in the ss column just inches away?  The disadvantage to having two
columns per seat is that it takes away a little access to the area under the
seats.  They get in the way.

Slim

On 9/19/03 8:49 PM, "Roger Pihlaja" <cen09402 at centurytel.net> wrote:

> Ed,
> 
> The reason why I designed in two support columns per cockpit seat instead of
> just one per seat has to do with stiffening the cockpit seat area around the
> lazarette hatch.  As I mentioned in my pervious post, the bulkhead on the
> front of the lazarette compartment is not attached to the cockpit seats & is
> therefore not a structural support for the seats.  Having two equally spaced
> support columns per cockpit seat locates the aft columns right on the forward
> edge of the drain gutter in the rear of the cockpit.  This is a pretty good
> location to provide structural support for the cockpit seat going across the
> boat over the lazarette compartment.  If one were to only use one support
> column per cockpit seat; then, these columns would be too far away from the
> lazarette compartment to provide much side-to-side stiffening back there.
> 
> Roger Pihlaja
> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
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