A good job taping the inside seam all the way into the end can eliminate the need for an endpour. I just find it easier to do the endpour than try to get tape into the swept-up ends of my designs.

> I have also almost run out of epoxy. How necessary are end pours. I don't
> plan to drill through the bow for grab loops. Can I get away without the
> pours? I haven't paddled much (read: at all) so I don't know how much
> stress the tips endure,

> Paul