The nearest thing that comes to mind when I think of putting the glass on my boat, is that it was very much like how I made pie shells.

when making a hell for an apple pie I woudl need to roll the dough to an even thickness -- much like I would apply an even thickness of resin as a sealing coat. Then I would have to lift the fragile shell over the pan and fit it into the recesses and curves of the pan. This is EXACTLY like putting the glass on the interior of the boat. With the pie I had to carry the shell rolled up on the rolling pin, and unroll it as I moved the pin across the width of the pie pan. With the boat I rolled the glass fabric on a tube and started at one end, letting the fabric settle into the boat as the tube rolled along the edges of the gunwale, or sheer, until it got to the toher end.

Once the glass fabric is in place you pour in some resin, just like you would pour in some syrupy filling. In the case of the boat you use a small amount of "filling" and move it around with a squeegee -- just like you would use a spatula to get cake batter out of the mixing bowl and into the cake pan.

Doing the exterior starts out like making a bed. Just lay out the fabric over the mattress (or hull) and tug the corners a bit to get the wrinkles out. Painting on the resin by applying small batches and spreading them out with the squeegee is a snap. the thickness of the glass fabric provides a uniform surface for the squeegee to ride on. You couldn't get too much resin on, as any that was above the glass would be wiped off. If you had precoated the hull to seal the wood, then you could not get too little on, as the thickness of the glassfabric would be the closest you could scrape. All the resin trapped in the glass fibers --which is where you want it -- could not be scraped up, and thanks to the precoating it could not soak into the wood fibers.

The precoat, and the fill coats are applied as simply as painting with a paint roller.

and that's it.

Now if you happen to make a few pies in order to practice, please invite us to share them -- or at least share them with your neighbors.

Darn, not only is this hobby addicting, but sometimes it makes me hungry.

Now I know why Rehd is always baking

PGJ