My paddling partner and I are thinking about taking a one-off from my new Guillemot 18. Yes, *gasp*, I'm actually contemplating smearing a bunch of epoxy and glass/kevlar/cf all over a bright, shiny, new boat!!

We're thinking about laying up the fabric over the bottom of the well-PVA'ed hull, and then vacuum bagging it. We'll do something similar for the deck, and then still probably build a wood coaming, since it would be hard to do a one-off from a completed coaming.

Deck and hull will be cut at the original sheer line, after removal from the wood boat, and then seamed "normally".

Big question: any recommended compositing schedules out there? He'd like to use primarily kevlar, but we'd consider some glass or carbon for ease of layup or what not.

He doesn't have the time/patience/skill to do a stripper, and doesn't like any of the existing s&g designs. Oh yeah, and he can't afford to have me build a stripper for him!

Thanks, Shawn