I recently joined the deck to the hull of my Arctic Tern. After building the 6.5 Ft. stick with a the syringe on the end I couldn't believe that I had enough dexterity to use it effectively.

A friend who used to build many sailing dingies using stitch and glue thought of a method that worked for me --- so far at least.

Tilt the boat on end (about 30 deg.) with the shear down. Mix up epoxy. I used 1/8th cup hardener, 1/4 c. resin, 1/8th cup wood flour. Pour it slowly into the seam at the cockpit. Let it run all the way to the bow (or stern) and then put the boat flat again. Let dry and repeat on the three other seams.

This seems to be so much easier than the stick with syringe method. Also, it appears to produce the nice wide fillets that were mentioned by someone else.

You could make these even stronger by doing a second pour on each seam.This is the first boat I have built so take all this with the preverbal grain of salt.

Any thoughts?????