Shape the deck, sand the deck. Fill the gaps, let the epoxy dry, sand the deck. Fill more gaps, let the epoxy dry, sand the deck. Fill the now magically-appearing, aiming-to-crush-my-soul gaps, let the epoxy dry, sand the deck. Remember the Tootsie Pop ads?
The answer is 364, although twenty non machine-assisted lickers averaged 252 licks to get to the center.
The question now, dear readers, is how many times can you sand a deck made from 1/4″ thick wood with 80, 120, 150 and 220 grit sandpaper without discovering the other side?
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- Two coats of epoxy rolled on the glass. Looks like one more will do it.
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- The fiberglass cloth is fully wetted out. Pretty happy with it.
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- Pulling the excess glass off before it fully hardens. Look at that perfect edge. The tape-underneath trick really works!
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- Cut a line through the new glass just above the tape
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- The stern, wetted out.
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- Edge detail. The tape is the trim line.
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- Fully wetted out deck.
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- The fore deck shining through 4-ounce fiberglass
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- Wasting some glass over the cockpit.
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- Trimmed cloth, smoothed out by hand along the bias until it conforms smoothly to the contours of the deck and hull.
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- Ready for epoxy.
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- Viking funeral shroud? Ready for the transformation.
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