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Re: S&G: before it's too late: fillets/tape issues
By:LeeG
Date: 1/11/2009, 11:04 pm
In Response To: Re: S&G: before it's too late: fillets/tape issues (wwfloyd)

just out of curiosity how is the interior finished? I've seen a lot of variations on interior construction from heavy fillet and no glass to nearly no fillet and 1 1/2"glass tape. The 9oz tape if kind of overkill and awkward to deal with, if it's 3" 9oz tape you have a lot of room for error.

CLCs original Chesapeake 17LT had the interior tape nearly sanded half way through and it held together.

The last construction I made was a Shearwater(Merganser)17W with pre-glassed panels (on the interior), minimal fillets and 2" 6oz tape over that with the edges of the tape scraped down considerably.

Messages In This Thread

S&G: before it's too late: fillets/tape issues
wwfloyd -- 1/9/2009, 6:56 pm
Re: S&G: before it's too late: fillets/tape issues
wwfloyd -- 1/11/2009, 6:36 pm
Re: S&G: before it's too late: fillets/tape issues
LeeG -- 1/11/2009, 11:04 pm
Re: S&G: before it's too late: fillets/tape issues
wwfloyd -- 1/12/2009, 6:42 pm
Re: S&G: before it's too late: fillets/tape issues *Pic*
Ken Sutherland -- 1/11/2009, 11:35 am
Re: S&G: before it's too late: fillets/tape issues
Dave Houser -- 1/10/2009, 7:32 pm
Re: S&G: before it's too late: fillets/tape issues
Ken Sutherland -- 1/10/2009, 8:59 am