I have had that happen to me. Most users of fiberglass do not really care if the cloth is continuous, so the suppliers don't see anything wrong with breaking up the order into smaller pieces so long as they supply the total length ordered.

I often use shorter pieces on the inside. Actually a more conservative way of cutting the cloth is to lay it across the boat and piece it together every 60 inches (or however wide your cloth is). Nick

> Had an interesting shock when I went to glass my hull. I had ordered 30
> yards of cloth from System Three along with my epoxy. As I was rolling it
> out on the boat I noticed something dark starting to appear as the roll
> got thinner. Eventually I saw that it was masking tape and realized that
> they must have come up short on the roll and had taped the last 15' onto
> it to make up the 30 yards. Unfortunately my boat is 17'6" long. I
> can probably use it under the deck so it isn't a total loss but it made me
> mad just the same. Just posted this as a warning not to take anything for
> granted when ordering your supplies, Never in a million years did I think
> I needed to say "Make that 30 continuous yards of cloth please"
> ...