: Well did something stupid and broke my yak. Well not too bad. I have crushed
: about 6 inches of my bow on the lower edge. It was just deep enough to go
: through the wood but not the inner layer of glass. I am planning to plane
: down through the damage and build back up using walnut. Here is my
: dilemma. I have RAKA no blush epoxy this takes about 12 hrs to set well. I
: want to build up almost 2 inches of walnut.

That is a lot of walnut

At 1/8 inch thick this will
: take at least 8 days if I use the RAKA epoxy. If I use 5 min. epoxy the
: laminating will take less than one day.

Beaware that 5 minutes epoxy blush, a lot. For glueing up the lamination, I guess it will be OK. Be sure to use slow epoxy when glue to the hull.

Then there is option 3 witch is
: buying epoxy just for the laminating.

I saw, on this board, someone used solid wood to creat a dog nose bow. May be you can carve a bird bill, a mermaid a dolphin, or something like that. If you use solid wood, you can cut out the laminating time.

: Now having said that why would I not want to use the 5 min. epoxy?

: Sage.

: P.S. My mother-in-law will be staying with me for 3 weeks. I would like to
: get as much paddling time as possible during this time.

Try to get out of the house to avoid the in-law, heh?