: I just put a sealer coat on a hull and then found a couple small glue spots I
: missed despite wetting down the hull twice. Obviously I need to get more
: light. I'd like to sand out these spots and re-seal but I'm pretty sure
: I'll have to sand the entire hull down, otherwise I'll have blotches of
: lighter color showing through where I sand.

: I'm hoping I'm wrong. Any thoughts/experience appreciated.

If they're on the bottom of the hull, I'd say forget them.

If they are in a highly visible spot then you can try just sanding them. However it's likely you'll have a darker "ring" when you re-saturate the wood at the edge of the old epoxy. This won't be as visible as the glue spots. I'd try this first and see if you can live with it. If you still don't like the look of the darker rings you can sand the whole surface back to bare wood and start over. This is not that big a deal now, better than if you had glassed certainly.

In an hour you could be back to bare wood by sanding. You can waste a lot more time thinking and agonizing about it than it takes just to do it.

I once have a deck with milky foam trapped in blotches all over. After three days of hair pulling, I finally just sanded the whole thing back to bare wood in about and hour and a half, and did it over. I never regretted re-doing it.

All the best,

Rob Macks
Laughing Loon CC&K
www.LaughingLoon.com