I'm working on both a Pygmy Coho and Tern (I was so impressed with my test paddling that I bought two) and am just about to start on the fill coats, and it occurred to me that I don't have a clear picture of what my goal is in this step, nor the best technique to use to lay the coats on.

(I searched through old posts [and found some good information!], but not specifically these.)

(a) about how much epoxy are each of these fill coats going to take? I think the hull saturation coat took about 12-15 oz each, and the glass coat about 20 oz each. What's reasonable, say, 8 oz? or does it take as much as the "satch" coat?

(b) if I use a squeegee, I can easily see how the weave will get filled, but isn't the squeegee going to scrape down to the level of the top of the glass weave, and thus sanding it later would cut into the glass?

(c) if I use a roller, but don't have enough epoxy gooped into the roller, will it leave a coat that's too thin? (and if too dry, even pick up epoxy rather than depositing it?)

how about the cut-in-half-roller-used-as-a-squeegee method? will that both lay in a decent coat of epoxy and not scrape down too hard against the glass?

please give me the benefit of your vast collective experience!

thanks,

dan