Hello, I noticed that you use the phrase "force the epoxy into the glass" to get best saturation you should let the epoxy soak in on it's own, then squegee off the excess. I also agree that you should wet out all the glass at the same time. Kenny> I'm building a twelve foot strip planked racing dinghy and I've started
> glassing the outside of the hull after applying a sealing coat of epoxy.
> I'm using six ounce cloth laid across the boat from gunwale to gunwale. So
> far I have wet out two of the five strips of cloth that are needed to
> cover the whole boat. Time limitations have prevented me from wetting out
> all the cloth in one go! However, I have noticed that on the two strips
> that I have wet out already there are frosty patches which suggests that
> these are areas where I have forces insufficient resin into the cloth. The
> cloth in these patches does however appear to have bonded to the wood in
> these areas. Is it possible to cure this problem? I was hoping to leave
> the outside of the hull in a natural state rather than paint it and the
> whitish areas will I think reduce the appearance of the boat.