It was white oak wine people. Red oak is very porous -- the pores opens from end to end -- so much so that you can blow bubbles with short lenth red oak neat tricks.)
I have not tried fibreglass on red oak; it may bonds well. Red oak also turns dark when expose to water. Imagine you scratch your boat, dark lines / patch will show up where wood soaks up water; and because red oak is porous, the dark patch will expanse quickly.
Red oak (or white oak, too) are heavy, why? Save your red oak for funiture. I did.

: Mark - I have no actual experience with red oak and epoxy, but consider this
: - red oak is high in tannic acid. That's why it is used for casks in the
: winemaking industry. White vinegar, also a mild acid, is used to
: neutralize epoxy. Epoxy is alkaline. When combined with acid, it reacts to
: form a new compound that is no longer epoxy. In her excellent strip
: building book "Illustrated Guide to Wood Strip Canoe Building",
: Susan Van Leuven describes a failure she had with epoxy and an oak
: gunwale. It may hold forever, it may not. Why tempt fate? - John