Ray,

If you do the sealer coat make sure you start the glassing before sealer coat cures too long. If you wait more than a couple of days you end up with a mechanical bond vs chemical. Also watch out for bluesh (sp) in some epoxy brands. It can form if you wait too long.

With two yaks going at once you need to schedule both steps close to each other.

Jack

> Hi Ray, I can only speak from what I've observed, but sealing the wood
> before laying the cloth seeems to do two things very well. 1) It seems to
> help get a better adhesion between the cloth and the substrate (ie:wood)
> and 2) it seems like it took about a half gallon less to seal it then
> cloth it than when I tried just putting the cloth over dry wood. As for
> lengthening, it might take more than just lengthening the strongback and
> adding another #8 form. I think there may be a little more geometry
> between the forms that that, but I'm sure Nick can answer that better than
> anyone. Good luck and happy building. Addictive isn't it;). Tom