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Re: Strip: to glass or not to glass
By:scottbaxter
Date: 7/21/2012, 2:20 pm
In Response To: Strip: to glass or not to glass (Andrew T)

Don't ask for general consensus, that would take all of the fun out of it.
I have done both, I don't know which is best. There are only few things that I have learned from experience that I would claim to always be correct, these are some that come to mind. Always look upstream if you pull off a river to take a whiz. Family and friends matter more than work. If you build a cedar strip SUP with a teenage daughter add about six months to the build time to allow for social life. Any yard work is better than an afternoon at the mall. The fact that 97% of treadmills are not used after the first 60 days of purchase is not due to lack of discipline as much as a lack of creativity (go buy a watermelon and see what you can do with a treadmill, some great physics experiments, a few lessons in chaos theory) if you don't like physics you can use a grasshopper or your wife’s cat and try some biology experiments.

: I've read that some people do and some people don't glass
: up/over/under the coaming lip.
: From the things I've read the people who don't do it say it's fine
: and the glass is overkill, and the people who do would never
: not. Some just glass the top of the lip but not over and
: under... What is the general consensus on this?

: Seems a few coats of epoxy could perhaps be strong enough, but
: maybe I'm putting to much faith into the epoxy oak combo..
: I'm a little scared to attempt glassing the thing due to the
: complex curves and my relative inexperience with fiberglass (it
: looks to good to mess up).
: My riser is vertical strips with 2 layers of 6oz glass on the
: outside, and one layer on the inside.
: The lip is 6 layers of 1/8X1/4 oak laminated together with epoxy
: and glued on the riser with thickened epoxy.

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Strip: to glass or not to glass
Andrew T -- 7/21/2012, 12:03 pm
Re: Strip: to glass or not to glass
scottbaxter -- 7/21/2012, 2:20 pm
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John Abercrombie -- 7/21/2012, 5:09 pm
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JohnFaas -- 7/22/2012, 12:19 pm
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Nick Riccardi -- 7/21/2012, 3:14 pm
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 7/21/2012, 5:03 pm
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John Abercrombie -- 7/21/2012, 9:47 pm
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 7/21/2012, 10:00 pm
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Mike Savage -- 7/22/2012, 9:41 am
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ancient kayaker -- 7/22/2012, 10:05 pm
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John Abercrombie -- 7/23/2012, 3:00 am
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Brian Hanks -- 7/23/2012, 5:43 am
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dave g -- 7/23/2012, 9:22 pm
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Brian Hanks -- 7/24/2012, 5:58 am
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dave g -- 7/24/2012, 8:58 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/25/2012, 2:02 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/24/2012, 1:39 am
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Brian Hanks -- 7/24/2012, 5:56 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/25/2012, 2:04 am
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Brian Hanks -- 7/26/2012, 10:30 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/26/2012, 10:50 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/22/2012, 12:44 am
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 7/22/2012, 10:43 am
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Ric Moodie -- 7/21/2012, 9:49 pm
Needed vs. necessary
Jay Babina -- 7/22/2012, 7:58 am