Today was supposed to be an uneventfull day. I was to glue a fiberglass strip across the butt joins on the inside of the boat. I mixed epoxy, unrolled the three inch fiberglass strip, painted some epoxy on the boat and then tried to lay the tape. It was a disaster. I was simply unable to straighten the tape or to keep it flat on both sides. One side would always rise and let air in and I was unable to make this work. I thought that putting more epoxy on the tape would soak it enough but it did not work. Also the whole strip would stretch on one end while I tried to make it lay even on the other. I cut the tape in half but this did not help either. I did my best and then returned upstairs only to go back down and remove the thing altogether. I don't know what to do. I'm thinking that when I need to glass the entire inside (in two large sheets) it will be a disaster. Could anyone share some techniques on how to lay fiberglass on the inside without trapping air or stretching it off the wood?

Tomorrow I will sand the wasted epoxy off the butt seams and try to do this again but I don't have a strategy on how to do this successfully.