Installing the Front and Rear Bulkheads
Life got in the way for a while but I got back to building the Tango Skiff – focusing on the front and rear bulkheads.
Tango Skiff Boat Build
My Tango Skiff boat build is an example of the amateur-friendly stitch and glue boatbuilding method. Making use of marine plywood, fiberglass and epoxy, I document its construction from beginning to end. Find all the articles below.
Transom Glued In
With the zip tie stitches removed, all that remained was gluing the temporarily screwed in transom into position.
Stitches Removed
The stitch and glue skiff loses its stitches – the zip ties that helped establish the boat’s shape and made it possible to tweak alignment before finally gluing the sides and bottom with epoxy.
Tango Skiff Swim Platforms?
As designed, the Tango Skiff transom extensions don’t make a swim platform feasible. But what if we altered them a bit?
Rear Bulkheads Assembled
Rather than try to build them in place, I dry fitted the rear bulkheads and built them on the workbench.