Another day spent in Frensham boat works means more pictures for the mad house.
Horizontal bulkhead trimmed down to size, roughly, and bogged into place, this runs under the kite pole and up over the current centerline bulkhead, the idea being here to provide strength down the bow to prevent the current banana effect and by overlaping both the pole tube and the stump/mastfoot area the strengthing will help to support all these areas to prevent flex.
This was my first big attempt at filleting bog and once set I plan to lay carbon tape over these joins to provide a bigger bonding surface. there likely will be allot of overlap here and onto the middle main bulkhead as I plan to carbon wrap that also to help preserve it for years to come, and obviously keeping it strong too.
At the bow end the bulkehead goes under the current pole tube arrangement, its a sung fit so the pole shouldn't collapse onto the bulkhead and in turn hopefully this will help hold the bow end together with the center-line panel. I upcycled a couple other bits I had lying around to provide lateral support up front and left the bottom open to allow any leaks to run out (hoping this isnt the case) this also helped to ensure that everything was true or at least close to that.
Finally here is the overall shot, lots of extra material here to trim down where required since the top of the bow tank is not finalised.
