: Since glassing the inside of a s-n-g hull is harder than the outside why not
: glass the insides of the hull panels while they are flat on the bench?
: When you stitch it up get a solid mech. bond, use a decent fillet and two
: strips of 2-3" glass tape on the inside seams.
: By glassing flat on the bench you could lightly clamp and press any excess
: resin out of the glass. Would this offset the weight of two strips of
: glass tape? I have done this with skegs and bulkheads and it worked well.
: thoughts?
: Heading out to buy the ply and thinking of different ideas.....always hated
: glassing the insides, seems you cannot avoid a few small bubbles...
I am in the process of building a kit from CLC--the Arctic Hawk, the method used on this boat is glassing all of the panels while they are flat then making the butt joints then assemblying them. The cockpit area is glassed and the whole outside of the boat. Sixteen feet long 22 inches wide medium volumn and it is supposed to come in at about 44 pounds per CLC--we shall see. The deck is glassed with 2 oz on the interior and 4 oz on all of the exterior.

I have never built a boat before so I cannot comment on this method.

Seems a bit scary to me to not have some glass on the majority of the interior of a boat, but I would sure love to cut 10 pounds from the load lifting it to the top of a mini-van.
Thanks to all who share on this board.