Rehd,
Thank you and all others for you imput. Good points have been raised.

I glued the stems, glassed the hull and sealed the deck with Raka working in the garage with the door closed. Thing is, I don't even remember this stuff having a scent and neither of the visitors while I was glassing commented on the smell. I'll give it a test as you and others have suggested before I try this.

It has warmed up 5 degrees after a low of -5. Time to bottle some mead and join the family for Christmas Eve festivities.
Mark

: Hi Mark

: Have you worked around epoxy ( RAKA to be specific ) in any other
: instances..?
: I would test it..... mix some and spread it on some scrap and then leave it
: alone in there all day../..night. Just to see what affects, if any, it has
: on you...

: Reason I say this: I had a neighbor lady and her husband stop by while I was
: gluing some joints on a skin boat once.. I wasn't using a mask and was
: O.K. The neighbor lady was in the house 15 minutes and started coughing,
: it got worse until it was violent and she couldn't get her breath. ( she's
: a smoker, so we thought it was just some sort of attack..) but then I
: remembered some of the warnings on epoxy and told her to get out of my
: house... she was a bit shocked, but went outside. Within 5 minutes she was
: perfectly normal. So, I asked her to come back in... and the whole thing
: repeated itself.. she had a violent reaction to the epoxy, which was far
: less that coating a boat... it was just a 1 or 2 teaspoon batch on some
: joints, in another room.

: Everyone seems to react differently.. so, double check to see if it affects
: you in that sort of environment.
: When I covered my canoe hull in my closed up garage, breathing it for an
: hour, I got light headed to a small degree.. and it cleared up as soon as
: I went outside and took in some fresh air... I was also using RAKA, not
: that the brand name would make a difference.. they are basically very
: similar.

: It's always a good idea to test before subjecting yourself to a full covering
: job.

: Rehd
: From the Left Coast