I went hunting on West Marine to see if they had a picture of the PVA bottle so I could verify, but they didn't have a picture. So, I started searching around the web and I happened upon this website that's a special-effects supply company. Still no pictures, but they had a lot of casting material, so I thought it might be of general interest.

> If you were building a wooden boat with "cheekplates" you could
> just fair some glass from the top of the seat right into the cheekplate
> and put a little foam on the cheekplates for your hips.

> By the way, Ross Leidy used PVA mold release from West Marine. If your
> foam seat isn't hard enough, you could cover it with a layer of glass and
> then fill the weave in. Then, wax this surface.

> I looked at West's online catalog and all I could find was PVA Curing
> Agent. Dunno if that's the same stuff or not...

> Shawn