: Look out - I'm baaaack!!!! The canoe lives.

: So today I finished filling all the wire holes and got transparencies printed
: at Kinkos of the canoe's name and model for application on the bow and
: stern respectively.

: While looking it over, however, I noticed an odd thing on the wood. There are
: two spots that sanded more than the wood around them - two small oval
: shaped spots. I got to wondering why that would be so I ran my hand over
: them and discovered that they are raised areas. Then I pushed on them and
: found that they gave under pressure. It's as if the outer layer of okoume
: has separated from the middle layer of the plywood and made a little
: bubble.

: It may be coincidental, but they are on either side of where one of the inner
: stations was located. Perhaps I had the station wedged in there too
: tightly at one point and it created the separation? There aren't such
: spots where the other four stations were, however.

: Regardless of the cause, my question is should I try to do anything about it
: and if so, what? All I can imagine doing is drilling a small hole in the
: bubble and injecting some kind of glue. Should I try to do something like
: that or just ignore it because once it's glassed it won't matter?

: Thanks for any thoughts.

: Patsy

If you really have delamination in okoume plywood the panel was defective. A piece of 1088 or 6566 okoume can be treated very roughly without ply separation.
You probably can fill the void by injecting epoxy but it's a bad trade-off.
If it happened to me I'd be going nose to nose with the guy that sold me the material.
I put my Cheap Canoe into a canoe race yesterday and I probably hit every boulder on the 9 mile course. Didn't suffer anything more than road rash. The hull is made from underlayment from Home Depot. Your hull is made from much better material and should be able to absorb even more without delam.
Hope you can get this straightened out.
Charlie