[Rhodes22-list] new subj: Foreward Foam replacement?

[Robert Skinner]

Luis -

One source for emergency flotation is 

   http://www.turtlepac.com/yachtkit.htm

The advantage of the turtlepacs is that they
don't take up much space until they are needed.

I also had to remove saturated foam (cheap
urea - absolutely useless IMHO) from under
a vberth.  After cutting out the junk foam
with a variety of knives, I figure to replace
the glass vberth with a removable deck 
screwed in place, so as to be easily pulled
out if I needed access to the bow quarters.

I plan to use truck inner tubes - cheap, 
available, and will adapt to any shape.
The only proviso is that the area in which
they will live needs to be smooth.  If I
can't stand the smell of the rubber, I may
stow a partially inflated life raft under 
there, making sure that the deck holding it 
in place can be removed instantly.

But you can bet that there won't be any urea
foam for long in any boats that I work on in 
the future.  The amount of water that it picked 
up scared me - not just the weight, but the 
compromised safety.

/Bob Skinner
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Luis Guzman wrote:
> I guess that could be an alternative. Do you have
> any information on the bags and how to attach them
> to the bow?
> Then I would have to build some structure for the
> vberth. I was planning in glassing in the foam.
>   Luis,
>   S/V PARADISE
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> Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
>   Luis Guzman wrote:
> > I had to get the foam out of the bow. There
> > was a blister about 4" in diameter on the
> > starboard side of the bow...
> > I saw something in the archives regarding the
> > kind of foam to use. I'll go back and do a search for it.
> 
> Would you consider air bags?
> They can be deflated to allow
> inspection of the hull interior, etc.
> 
> /Bob Skinner