Installing Hatches and Bulkheads: Nick Schade Shows How

Over the course of his storied career, master designer and builder Nick Schade has developed a lot of pro techniques that help produce professional-quality results. Happily for the rest of us, Nick enjoys sharing what he knows. His extensive series of well-made boatbuilding videos are the primary medium for dispensing this wealth of knowledge. The popular series "Building the Petrel Play Stitch-and-Glue Kayak" is one of his most exhaustively detailed. It include trade tips that might elude less experienced builders, and quick fixes for mishaps and mistakes. The series is broken into manageable episodes that usually run about half an hour.

In this episode from that series, Nick installs the bulkheads and hatches: