The Stain I was using was Minwax "Accents" It's water based and drys quickly without penetrating very deeply. To be safe I am going to sand it off. Better to have the two hairline stripes at the joint than to be worried about delaminating glass. Thanks for the advice.

I read somewhere back a discussion of using rite dye to color strips of
> wood. Has anyone tried a wood stain. In a moment of temporary insanity I
> stained a half width strip with a water based stain prior to gluing it up.
> It's a forest geen color to add contrast at the chine and looks nice
> between white and red cedar strips.

> Now that I am back to my senses I realize:

> 1. When I plane and sand the boat clear wood is bound to show through. I
> worry that touching it up will bleed into adjacent strips.

> 2. Of much greater concern is will the epoxy adhear to a strip with stain
> on it. The thought of the epoxy not sticking to this strip has me
> panicked.

> Has anyone tried water based stains under epoxy (particularly one with
> pigment like green) If in doubt I will sand it clean. I may end up with my
> cool forest green strip looking like somthing that got moldy.