> Nigel Dennis makes his three piece Romanys similarly. They build a
> standard Romany and install doubled bulkheads, with a saw-kerf-width
> spacer in between. They drill holes, install bolts, and then have at the
> boat with a saw. The trad secret seems to be how to guide the saw
> accurately. You'd have to be brave to do the first one.

If you used a hand saw that had a fairly long blade, you could just drill a starter hole, and cut the whole thing by hand. (I'm thinking like a fine-toothed crosscut saw with a pretty deep blade) Maybe even one of those Stanley ShortCut toolbox saws would work well. Keep most of the blade in the spacer area and it should guide you around without cutting into the bulkheads too deeply, and would probably just slightly mar the faces of the bulkheads.

Better yet, grind off all of the teeth on the forward portion of the saw, and just leave 2-3" of teeth near the handle.

Shawn