Not that this will help you at this stage of the game, but on the Artic Tern I am building, I did not glass the outside of the butt joints. When I picked my kit up at Pygmy Boats, I saw the bulge that is created by glassing both sides. I also saw boats there that I couln't see any evidence that they had been taped on the outside. So I searched here and found that others had success with glassing only the inside. I taped the inside per the directions, then applied a second piece of 6 oz glass 4" wide over that.

: Hello,

: I am building a Pygmy Coho and have just finished gluing the joints for the
: panels that (will) form the hull.

: For each panel joint glassed & glued, there is now a patch of dried epoxy
: that is roughly 1/32 to 1/16 of an inch above the surface of the wood. I
: have peaked ahead at the instruction manual, and perhaps I missed it, but
: at what point does the joint epoxy patch on the panels get sanded down to
: the same level as the rest of the hull wood? Does this take place after
: the panels are stitched together?

: Thanks,
: Robert