You can grab a handful of planer shavings and stick a small piece into every gap you can find.

The Epoxy WILL fill your small gaps, if you have a large one you don't feel like filling you can put tape behind it to keep the epoxy from bleeding through.

We all have small gaps somewhere in our boats....well, maybe not Joe G.

Put a droplight into the cockpit and turn off the shop lights, the gaps will show up nicely.

One thing to watch out for is starving the cloth as you have said. You may get the cloth bridging the gap instead of following the contour or dip where your strips didn't meet closely. These will show up lighter, like a bubble in the cloth if you don't get enough resin there.

Good luck!
Ben Staley

: I have finished fairing and am wondering how fussy I need to be about small
: gaps between the strips. I have put filler into any that I can see right
: through to the inside but it would be a big job to do that to all the ones
: that are tight on the inside but open on the outside (I am not using cove
: and bead). I guess the real question is, will the epoxy fill the fine gaps
: or is there too much risk of the cloth going dry? Also, in cases where the
: PVA has completely filled such gaps and not shrunk back, is this a
: suitable substrate for the glass (can't do anything about it now anyway
: but still curious).