On my P15 the floatation is already under the cockpit floor. Either
someone modified mine, or the factory used to do it that way. I used to
live in Charleston 25 yrs ago. My very first sailing trip was in a
friends yacht named "Argument", there are certainly some beautiful
waters down there!
Dick Fletcher
P15 #667, Entropy
Jeff Goller wrote:
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> Someone needs to stop me before I do something crazy! Got my P-15 back
> from the repair shop a few days ago, and have been looking it over.
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> Noticed that inside, where the seat cusions end there were vertical
> pieces of fiberglass sticking up to prevent items from rolling under the
> dead space of the cockpit seats in the bilge. Nice idea thought I,
> until I got a flashlight and saw how much room was being wasted back
> there for these big flotation strips.
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> So I got to thinking........ It looks like I could remove the flotation
> blocks, saw them in half longwise and replace them under the dead space
> of the floor of the cockpit. Glue them in place so they are secure.
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> Net result= identical amount of flotation
> in the stern, but now able to make use of the dead space under the
> cockpit seats for storing things (i.e. an oar, a boat hook, ice chest
> tool kit etc.) It looks like it would almost double the usable space on
> this boat.
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> The only thing I would have to do would be to cut those damned vertical
> plastic flotation stoppers.
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> Has anyone else noticed this and hacked these plastic pieces away, or
> should I start taking antipsychotic medicine?
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> Jeff Goller
> P-15
> Hull# 2068
> "At Long Last"
> Charleston, SC
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