: yah, I want to pay 80 dollars a gallon when I can get it for 20... I'm using
: polyester resin from john r sweet... how would I go about covering the
: mold when it is outside? I have the end of my driveway to work in... trees
: and animals are abundant... and I don't know how I could keep everything
: off of it

I think that the general consensus is that poly smells a lot worse than epoxy. "Outside" refers to the garage... no one expects that you can keep the leaves rain and critters off the mould as long as you would need to when you are using the end of the driveway.

Yup, poly is a lot cheaper. If you can only use the basement, try and get some positive exhaust from the room you are working in to the outside. The best thing would be to have a fan in a window bringing air into the basement, and another on the other side of the room in another window tossing it outside. The "tossing it outside" fan is the more important as it will create a partial vaccum in the basement and will reduce the spread of the poly smell throughout the house.

Get the biggest fan that you can. The ends of the fan blades push the most air, and the axle pushes the least, so if the fan is bigger than the window, cobble together a "funnel" that will match the inside of the window to the back of the fan. You want the fan to blow everything it can outside, a bit of turbulence caused by a funnel is better than the fan exhaust hitting the window and "bouncing" back inside.

Keep in mind that most chemicals aren't great for your lungs and you should wear a respirator, especially as you're working in closed environment.

Anyway, have fun and build the boat.

coop