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Re: I glass tomorrow! -- RESULTS.
By:Jim Ward
Date: 9/5/1998, 9:55 pm
In Response To: I glass tomorrow! (Jim Ward)

> Thanks to those who responded. I just finished. Here's how it turned out.

As I expected the bow turned out great and the stern is fair but not perfect. The cloth stretched enough to conform to the bow perfectly. At the stern, I wet the cloth to the end of the hull. Then I cut off all but 2" of the excess cloth. Then, at the keel line, I cut 2 little slits about an inch apart inward from the end of the cloth toward the stern's bottom corner. This formed a 2" 'tail' that I wet down rounding that difficult corner. Then I wrapped one of the side pieces one way and the other side piece the other way so that they overlapped. Difficult to explain but I hope you get the drift. The one side is perfect but the other side wouldn't cooperate and has a little corner I just couldn't get to lay down. I guess I'll just sand it down after it hardens and then touch up the area with a little more epoxy.

Conclusion: Until someone tells me a better way, I'd use this same procedure next time but I might cut the 2 slits a little further apart (but not much) so I have more 'tail' to work with.

Now I'm wondering if there would be any merit to laying down some seam tape at the bow and stern. A couple of posts seemed to think this would be a good idea. Any one else care to comment?

Jim...

Messages In This Thread

I glass tomorrow!
Jim Ward -- 9/4/1998, 9:19 pm
Re: I glass tomorrow! -- RESULTS.
Jim Ward -- 9/5/1998, 9:55 pm
Re: I glass tomorrow! -- RESULTS.
Paul Jacobson -- 9/5/1998, 10:14 pm
You glassed yesterday, but...
Paul Jacobson -- 9/5/1998, 8:02 pm
Slit and wrap
Pete Ford -- 9/5/1998, 5:55 pm
Re: I glass tomorrow!
Brian -- 9/5/1998, 1:15 pm
Re: I glass tomorrow!
Paul Stomski -- 9/4/1998, 10:12 pm
Re: I glass tomorrow!
Dean C. -- 9/5/1998, 3:45 pm