Cutting a larger doorway in the Chainplate Bulkhead

Unless you are a composites engineer yourself then this episode is not one we recommend you try at home. This week we are widening the doorway through the bulkhead - but this bulkhead has a carbon fibre chainplate built into it and we are going to cut super close. Why? We want to open up the space to make Paikea's narrow hulls more accessible and easier to walk through, but it is more than just taking the jigsaw to it. This area sees some serious load and by cutting into this space we need to know what we are doing. There is always a great deal of thought and calculations that go into each of our projects. Shayne makes it look easy but he has done this stuff a million times before (gotta admit it still makes me nervous looking how close we go to the chainplate!). As you may have already figured, we are not the average DIY boatbuilder on YouTube. Hopefully our videos will inspire others but we absolutely recommend talking to a composites engineer before you tackle anything as serious as what we are up to here. That being said, the end product looks fabulous and the bulkhead now has unidirectional fibre running along the entire doorway with edge capping to finish it off. Happy days. If you are interested to see the lamination of the doorframe in more detail an explanation of our methodology can be seen on our videos on re -engineering the doorframe - see the links below https://youtu.be/YoHUB7iZU4g https://youtu.be/Pvfkim9rvIY We tried filming some of this with our new insta360 but some footage came out a bit wonky so apologies everyone. We're learning as we are doing on the filming side of things. For the bulkhead edge capping we used vinlyester resin from Easy Composites @easycompositestv More info as always on our website https://youngbarnacles.com MUSIC https://www.youtube.com/