I laid up the layers of cloth for one of the hatch lips on my guillemot last night using the One Ocean method...or a somewhat poor version of it anyway, and was wondering about the shape of channel I will end up with. My guess is that it will end up with a rounded trough when I am done since the cloth didn't really want to make the corner around the gasket tightly. Is this going to be a problem? Is a tight channel to gasket fit really important or is it just a way of lowering the height of the ledge to accomodate the gasket?

I noticed that Spidey used a fillet of thickened epoxy on either side of the sacrifical gasket. Is this what most people do? I didn't read about anyone else doing this and decided to try it without.

I was also wondering about the best way of wetting out 6 layers of cloth. It didn't go as smoothly as I pictured, I saturated the first layer pretty thick and then laid down the next few layers and dumped on more resin and laid the next few etc. I ended up with a lot of the frayed edges stuck to everything including me and I just know there has to be a better method, it was one of those times I had a good laugh at myself and was glad no one was watching.

Thanks, Ben S.