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Glassing my Guillemot
By:Marcelo 9 7/8
Date: 2/16/2000, 1:03 pm

Hi everybody! I'm back!!

My finger looks like a sausage, but my soul is intact!

I've got a question regarding the fiberglass cloth I should use for my Guillemot:

As you might know, I live in Argentina (South América) where the metric system is used.

I bought what I believed was 6 oz fiberglass cloth (I had never seen fiberglass cloth before) and, because of a bad conversion of units, some round ups or whatever I strongly think that it actually is 10 oz cloth.

Because of some "financial" problems I could only afford half the full cloth needed to glass the whole boat, hull and deck, in and out.

I've glassed the hull outside. The 10 oz cloth got lots of resin before it saturated, increasing my "financial" problems. Besides, the hull (only glassed outside) weights a lot and feels like an amphibious panzer.

I've got cloth only for another glassing and I don't want to throw it away. I am planning to buy the rest of cloth in 6 oz. thickness.

So the question is:

Where I should glass with the rest of 10 oz glass?

a) Hull inside (leaving deck in an out with 6 oz) b) Deck outside (leaving hull and deck inside with 6 oz) c) Deck inside (leaving hull inside and deck outside with 6 oz).

My common sense tells me that I should go for the "b" option, in order to have a full 10 oz outside and 6 oz inside, but it's the same common sense that makes me lost my fingertip...

Thanks in advance

Marcelo 9 7/8

Messages In This Thread

Glassing my Guillemot
Marcelo 9 7/8 -- 2/16/2000, 1:03 pm
Re: Glassing my Guillemot
Shawn Baker -- 2/16/2000, 1:40 pm