Good morning everybody,
here it is right now 10:18 hours and it´s overcast abd cold. I had a sleepless night after spending all yesterday afternoon, 4 hours glassing my guillemot hull.
Today my back is kaputt, my hand do cramp easily and I´m still in love with my boat. Hardly any air bubbles, and all the smears and spots on the wood have dissapeared. By the way, I used, by a severe mistake of mine, two different woods,
mahagony and oukume, so the boat looks quite distinctive. Each form has a different colour, I´ll try to find out how to send a picture.
My two biggest mistakes were:
-Too much epoxi in one batch, I spread too much on the cloth LOOSLEY with the result thAt this loosely wetted glass became impermeable and traped absolutely all the available air underneath. I had a terrible time getting all the bubbles out, but I found out the best way to remove them is rubbing them out with your finger (gloved of course) I called my wife down, I was in the embankment?, and she donned latex gloves and of she went rubbing them out.Ba that time I was already in panic.

- Only one squeege. Best thing to apply epoxi is the squeege, imho, but having only one it got so smeared I coul hardly hold it, and is now glued to the floor under my boat, I dropped it there yesterday and forgot.

- Wear tight fitting trousers. I lost mine half way through the proceedure, I could not pull them up with my epoxied gloves and I could not stop to get rid of the gloves because the stuff was getting hard fast, my hardener works down to 5° C.

But having a look todday I´m quite satisfied. I have a glassed hull, a new squeege stuck to the floor and one nice transparent puck.

By the way I only used 1 liter of epoxi approx. but have to do several fill coats and the deck may be this evening. With all my new expertise that should be easier.

Ok, thought I had to get rid of this,

Joaquin