: S & G or Stripper?

S&G Canoe. So I need it to be pretty durable but look decent on the inside. My thoughts are to glass the outside with RAKA 5 oz and maybe put an extra layer of cut strips on the bottom seam. I plan to put brass stems on the first four feet of both bow and stern. I hope I will have enough glass left over to do at least the football inside. The designer says I don't need to glass the inside at all, but I'm getting a lot of advice to glass. It would be nice to be able to do a second layer on the outside football too, but that may be overkill.

: When S & G boats first started, designers taped them like tanks. The
: current trend with S & G is to use the fillets and tape on the inside
: and totally glass the outside hull. The Deck is usually put on with a
: shear strip (wood) and the shear joint is often glassed with a very light
: cloth tape (3 oz) just to cover and protect the end grain of the deck.
: (tape usually self cut out of cloth on a bias)

: Even on strippers, more and more builders are using self cut light cloth tape
: on the outside and avoiding all that nonsense that you're concerned with.

: Tape always goes over the overall glass layer on the outside. That big heavy
: nine oz. finished edge cloth tape is rairly used on the outside anymore.
: It's just not needed.