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Re: Strip: Hull Too Wide?
By:Charlie Lesh
Date: 1/9/2002, 12:28 pm
In Response To: Strip: Hull Too Wide? *Pic* (Rick Brannan)

Rick:

Nice looking boat!

Speaking from my own experience, I would have been thrilled with a gap as small is yours. I used a lot of packing tape, and a lot of muscle, and squeezed as best I could. Then I ran some tape lengthwise down the seam on the outside. Then I glassed the inside seam. After the inside cured, I pulled off all my tape. Then I took my random orbital sander, and went to work on the outside seam. After evening everything out as best I could, I glassed the outside seam. Honestly, I started with a gap bigger than yours in places, and now you can't even see it. Well, I can see it, but nobody else can. I'm sure everything I just wrote has already occurred to you, but I just wanted to reassure you that it will work out.

Good luck with the rest!

-Charlie

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Hull Too Wide? *Pic*
Rick Brannan -- 1/9/2002, 11:37 am
Re: Strip: Hull Too Wide?
David Bryson -- 1/10/2002, 5:37 pm
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Stan Snapp -- 1/12/2002, 11:47 am
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Shawn Baker -- 1/10/2002, 3:14 pm
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Rick Brannan -- 1/10/2002, 3:48 pm
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Rob Macks -- 1/10/2002, 4:39 pm
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Tom Johansen -- 1/11/2002, 12:22 am
Re: Strip: Hull Too Wide?
John Monfoe -- 1/10/2002, 4:49 am
make it fit like a glove
Tom Johansen -- 1/9/2002, 11:22 pm
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jim kozel -- 1/9/2002, 4:16 pm
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Ben Staley -- 1/9/2002, 12:29 pm
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Rick Brannan -- 1/9/2002, 2:55 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/9/2002, 9:02 pm
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Craig -- 1/9/2002, 8:05 pm
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Andreas -- 1/11/2002, 11:48 am
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Rob Macks -- 1/9/2002, 10:33 pm
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Rob Macks -- 1/10/2002, 4:33 pm
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Al Gunther -- 1/11/2002, 12:03 am
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Charlie Lesh -- 1/9/2002, 12:28 pm