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Glueing deck on Osprey Std....Help...
By:Brion
Date: 2/25/2001, 12:45 am

The directions that came with the kit talk about glueing the deck on something like this:
1) tape the deck in place
2) run a bead of epoxy around the outside of the boat on both sides where the hull and the deck meet
3) Sand the deck and round the deck/hull edge
4) Glass the deck
5) Run a fillet of epoxy on the inside of the deck/hull seam.

This raises a number of questions -
1) Taping the deck in place was an exercise in patience - and clamps and straps - to get it aligned perfectly. The joint between the beveled edges of the deck and hull is so thin that it seems that very little epoxy will actually find it's way in there. Will this really hold when I take off the tape and clamps?
2) The directions say to sand next - well, if I sand and round the edge of the deck/hull joint I'm pretty sure that's going to sand off all the epoxy I put on on the prior step and boing, off pops the deck...
3) Doesn't it make more sense to epoxy the outside of the deck/hull joint, let that dry. Then remove the clamps (but leave the tape I'm thinking) Then run the fillet on the inside of the deck/hull joint, let that dry. Remove the tape. And finally, sand the edges and glass the top of the deck? Or am I missing something???

Anyway, I could greatly use the help. Thanks in advance again for your responses...

Brion

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Glueing deck on Osprey Std....Help...
Brion -- 2/25/2001, 12:45 am
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Mike -- 2/25/2001, 12:04 pm
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Robert Palmeter -- 2/25/2001, 1:31 pm
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Ted -- 2/25/2001, 8:58 pm
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Gini L. -- 2/25/2001, 10:45 am
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Robert Palmeter -- 2/25/2001, 9:59 am
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Larry C. -- 2/25/2001, 8:09 am
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kathy W -- 2/28/2001, 12:31 am