Had some wiring of new spotlight and bow light, and while resting on the anchor locker forward bulkhead with my shoulders and head up in there, it sort of gave way on bottom of door frame, the bottom piece being mulchy and held 2gether mainly by the paint very well coulda been orginal bulkhead. I forced it out with 3 beers, 1 rubber mallet, and judicious use of a sawz-all. glass and wood chips taste like chicken. got it out in 2 pieces with only a small area missing at bottom of door. If anyone wants me to draw up a template for them holler out while I still got it.
I had a moment of panic, when the beer ran out, and when I realized this was not going back in 1 piece w/o taking cap off, which is not about to happen. found stricks post where he used 3/8 starboard and managed to fit it in. Tracked down a 24x57 custom cut sheet from thecuttingboard.com in PA, 80 clams, and had them cut the door as well 13x17 for 13 clams. hard to locate 3/8" starboard it seems.
Major battle, but I won last eve. Now the rebuild starts
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2 shots showing the bulkhead, and one of the winter console work with analog merc gauges fed via digital merc monitor
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the round looking puck on top of cap is a removable spotlight attachment set-up. ran out of wiring clips as you see hanging down, on order from genuinedealz.com. spotlight needs the male/female clips, and doing same for LED bow light as not sure how tight my new bulkhead will be.
