: I seem to remember reading, I think in Ted Moores book "Canoe
: Craft" that you do not attempt to fill the holes as the capilary
: action of the epoxy into the staple holes will fill them. If you try to
: fill them with a thickened mixture, it will stop of the hole and cause the
: capilary action not to work. On the first coat of epoxy with the glass
: covering, you have to watch the staple holes as they will suck the epoxy
: from the glass. The inside coat will not act the same as the holes will
: already have been filled.

: Now what to do? I would drill them again, maybe put some glass patches on the
: inside and wet it out, the epoxy will suck through the hole so keep adding
: a little epoxy until it begins to harden enough to quit running through
: the hole. When hard, sand the outside and inside patch, walla, all fixed!

I built the Coho, and did not deviate from Pygmy's instructions really at all. I had 3 fill coats on the outside, none on the inside, and I did not attempt to fill the wire holes. I did fill the chine seams as instructed with thickened epoxy. Although putting a lamp inside the boat in a darkened garage makes it look like some kind of bizarre Jack-O-Lantern, I have no leaks. Perhaps filling the holes was somehow a bad thing, although I do not quite picture why. Seems to me that drilling them out and refilling would be a good idea, with perhaps a small glass patch on the inside.

Chris