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no glass needed
By:Jay Babina
Date: 2/20/2011, 9:24 am
In Response To: Strip: Advice on glassing over the lip (Todd O)

You didn't say what type of coaming and lip you're making - stacked plywood or a Nick style with upright pieces etc. Don't glass the lip edge because you're only asking for disaster and a lot of swearing. Fo our purposes, glass cloth is a binding substrate to hold things together like a girdle. Epoxy by itself will finally cure rock hard and is actually more abrasion resistant than glass cloth. You can see this if you ever sand a boat for a repair. In all cases I glass my coaming but just coat my lip with several coats of epoxy. If you do a stacked coaming (Chesapeake style) you could glass the coaming if you want but it's not needed. Trying to glass a lip or lip edge is foolish and not needed - it's plenty strong enough and a nightmare challenge with no real benefits.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Advice on glassing over the lip
Todd O -- 2/18/2011, 11:10 pm
Re: Strip: Advice on glassing over the lip
Todd O -- 2/18/2011, 11:27 pm
Re: Strip: Advice on glassing over the lip
Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 2/19/2011, 10:26 am
Re: Strip: Advice on glassing over the lip
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2011, 11:00 am
Re: Strip: Advice on glassing over the lip
Allan -- 2/19/2011, 3:46 pm
Re: Strip: Advice on glassing over the lip
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2011, 5:06 pm
no glass needed
Jay Babina -- 2/20/2011, 9:24 am
Re: no glass needed
Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 2/20/2011, 11:29 am
Re: no glass needed *PIC*
Todd O -- 2/20/2011, 6:15 pm
Re: no glass needed
Allan -- 2/20/2011, 9:02 pm
Re: no glass needed
ancient kayaker -- 2/25/2011, 10:58 pm