: Bill, I had a lot of left over 2" wide fiberglass seam tape. I cut them
: into 4" long lengths. I would lay one 4" long piece starting
: under my deck, then I masking taped it on the end under the deck and run
: the 4" length up and over my foam coaming, then tape it on the other
: end to hold the whole piece in place. Then I repeated this all the way
: around the coaming foam to make one layer. Then I fiberglassed the whole
: layer. I repeated this 6 times. I over laped each piece edge on each strip
: by about 1/3 of a strip. The problem was that seam tape edges have a
: raised seam that created some hollows in the lay up that didn't fill with
: epoxy. It was a heck of a lot of work for nothing, plus I had to rip the
: whole thing out. I printed out how you did yours incase I try it again.

: One question, if you bent the carbon fabric under your deck and up and around
: your combing foam, how did it stay inplace while the epoxy was setting up
: without it wanting to spring loose from the sharp bend coming from under
: the deck, up and around to the top of your deck. That's why I had to use
: masking tape to hold my in place. I know I'm not explaining myself too
: well about this. I had a good picture of the glass tape ready to be
: epoxyed but I can't find it.

John

If the cloth is biaxially cut it conforms to curves better. I had about a 1/8 radius on the bottom side of the deck and 1/4 radius on the form. The cloth was laid 1 inch on the bottom of the deck, 1 inch up the coaming form ( 4mm of ply + 3/4 inch form ) and 3/4 inch for coming lip. I did not use any tape or weights to make the cloth stay in place. I did keep

I painted on a coat of epoxy, laid the cloth on and painted on another layer of epoxy, laid on another layer of cloth, etc. I did have to use my hands to get the cloth to lay tight and squegee out excess epoxy. I could not use gloves and make it smooth. I did use a barrier cream on my hands and that worked well. The epoxy did not get through to my skin and every thing washed off using soft soap.

I like this method because I did not have to make the coaming and then glue it on. It is made directly on the deck. The only difficut part was adding the fillet to the outside of the coaming riser.

Bill

: John in IN