Spidey,

I will be glassing my Guillemot Double soon (I hope) and am thankful for your post. Your results look GREAT and your experience is very encouraging

I am wondering if anybody else out there can quantify the amount of epoxy used for a first coat. Having never epoxied before the 36oz you used sounds like a lot. I understand that you did not put a ‘primer’ coat on which may account for a good protion of that number as it soaked into the wood. Any idea how much was left over at the end and how much dripped on the floor?

Thanks! Scott

> Hi All;

> Well, thank goodness, glassing the hull was a 45 minute pleasure filled
> experience - - I can breathe easily again! My friend with all the glassing
> experience had me mix 24oz of epoxy at first, which I poured on the hull
> and began spreading. Spread it down the keel and pull it downward toward
> the sheer lines. Catch the runoff back in your cup. Pour it back as
> necessary onto the glass and wood areas that have not been thoroughly wet
> out. Repeat as necessary.

> Don't believe the instructions that say bubbles from runoff epoxy will
> produce a milky coat, that all disappears if you're still within the pot
> life of your epoxy - - I was done wetting the hull in 10 minutes, every
> single bubble went away almost instantly. I spent some time spreading the
> epoxy uniformly, and then adding the abrasion strips to the stems. The bow
> and stern now have an 18oz layup consisting of 6" wide and 4"
> wide 6oz strips run about 5' up the keel from either end. I had to mix
> more epoxy to finish the stem reinforcement strips, I did 12oz additional
> with some left over - waste . . . All of this accomplished in 3/4 hour.
> I'm impressed! 8-)

> There are a few more pix of the glassing up at my web site, noted below,
> jump to the "Glassing" link. Fellow Newbies, it's
> "cake!"