Now I'll be dreaming all night long of hot apple pie...Thanks Paul...oh my stomach is growling.

: 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