South Coast Sailboats
Bulkhead installed between cabin and cotpit
This worked out really well. This prevents water and odors
for leaching forward into the cabin. It makes the cabin a little
more air tight, and therefore warmer in cold weather. It also
helps to keep gas fumes out of the cabin, if you keep you gas
tanks in the cotpit lockers. . I think this is a good setup for
a couple of reasons. First I store gas tanks back there, and you
cannot smell them inside the boat. Nor can you smell the bilge
odors. Previously, I used to have batteries (12V) installed back
there. They smell when discharging or recharging. The final reasons
for a bulkhead are to limit the amount of moisture (or large quantities
of seawater) from entering into the cabin. Gas fumes have never
been a problem for me. I have also seen in sail mag. how you can
vent your tanks directly to the outside of the boat. I haven't
done this but in the ten years I have had this boat it has never
been a problem. (A great recommendation)