So I finally made the decision to use epoxy rather than the left over polyester boat resin. I was just too nervous about the age of the resin, plus just the smell of it in the bottle put me off quite a bit. The final straw was when I was taking a look at my supplies for both the epoxy and the polyester, the measuring cups for the polyester had been contaminated with spilled hardener, so I knew I could not use them.

I cut the glass tape to length for all my inside seams and got started in the center section of the cockpit. It is a messy process, but I did the best I could with it. My hat goes off to all those who seem to be able to create such clean fillets and straight tape lines. This time around I believe my fillets efficiently used the epoxy.

The keel seam was not as fair as it could have been. I had cut the lines straight point to point rather than using a batten. The gap was close to 1/4 inch, and the thickened epoxy pushed the 2 month old duck tape on the outside. I had to keep smoothing the outside tape until the epoxy set up to keep the gap filled. The bottom will be so much fun to sand now!

No pictures, I can't find the charger to my camera. I will get some up on the next post.

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