[Rhodes22-list] Re design of Rhodes Interior and elimination of compression post.

[Blue Heron]

Hi John,

Your pictures show some nice wide open spaces.  However, it is hard to tell
where the downward load on the arch goes.  Are the the bulkheads or "half
walls" supporting the arch supported by a stringer or perhaps a direct path
the the keel?

Rick

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:41 PM, John Shulick <jsbudda at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> Hi everybody,
>
>  Over the last season I decided to change the interior of my 71 rhodes to
> reflect the way my wife and I use the boat. We are not small people and
> found the original Layout to be hard to move around in when cabin bound by
> weather. As we get on the boat friday nights and don't return to the dock
> until sunday afternoons we found the six foot nose birth a bit cramped.
> Also
> as the early rhodes did not have a fixed head we had a hallway with little
> purpose and a wall extending halfway across the the boat to little purpose
> except to act as a compression post for the mast. During the past few
> weekends I added a 2 ft. extension to the bow bed replaced the cabin floor,
> installed new carpeting and removed the original wall replacing it with 2
> half walls and a compression arch over the cabin ceiling to accept the mast
> load. The arch you see in the following pictures is 1/2 in spring steel
> custom bent in a 100 ton press (I do live in Pgh. after all) I stood on the
> arch before I installed it and my 280 lbs. did not even make it flex. I
> feel
> pretty confidant it will work but will keep all informed in the event of
> failure. Enclosed are before and after shots.
>
> John Shulick
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p23012525/johns%2B2007%2Bhome%2Bpics-058.jpg
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