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Re: From experience, which method is best?
By:Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks
Date: 3/31/1999, 10:09 am
In Response To: Re: From experience, which method is best? (Jay Babina)

> Method 3. Strip the entire boat with no glue between the shear strips.
> Sand it. Slip plastic between the deck and hull and glass the deck or hull
> outside while on the forms. Remove it. Then glasss the other half.

The only reason I don't do this all the time is because it is fractionally easier to other part of the boat off while glassing one part than it is to shove the plastic/waxed-paper into the sheer joint. Being basically lazy, I jump on any step that saves me a tiny bit of effort. Of course I open myself up to damaging the un-glassed piece when I remove it from the forms, but aside from the time I stepped on it, I have not had any problem when I put it someplace safe.

I do not recommend stepping on a deck when it does not have glass on it. It will break.

With larger boats like a double, I do the wax paper trick.

Messages In This Thread

From experience, which method is best?
Brian Barnett -- 3/31/1999, 7:05 am
Re: From experience, which method is best?
Paul Woolson -- 3/31/1999, 12:59 pm
Re: From experience, which method is best?
Jay Babina -- 3/31/1999, 9:01 am
Re: From experience, which method is best?
Pete Rudie -- 3/31/1999, 11:48 am
Re: From experience, which method is best?
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 3/31/1999, 10:09 am
Re: From experience, which method is best?
Ross Leidy -- 3/31/1999, 9:22 am
Re: From experience, which method is best?
Mac Buhler -- 3/31/1999, 5:46 pm