Rick,

I read the above and only have one other thing to offer:

For those areas which look like they have not much glue... They do have glue, but it did not make it to the surface. You can fill in the stripe with yellow glue, but then you need to wait a while to let the water get out of the glue before fiberglassing. You could use thickened epoxy, but it is somewhat difficult to sand. It is much harder than the wood which you are about to sand and may stand out from the surface... just a bit... and it is rough on sandpaper, especially if the epoxy is still green.

One other method to decrease the problems with the fiberglassing, and decrease the number of bubbles under the epoxy is to fill the holes with Durham's Water Putty, appropriately colored with some water based coloring. (pigment used for latex paint or perhaps RIT dye) Mix it up about the color of your wood. It dries lighter, but darkens again when covered with epoxy. Advantage of this method is that the putty is very easy to sand, and about the same hardness as the cedar.

I did not do it with this boat, but have been so impressed with Durham's (originally Rob Macks suggestion on this board) that I believe one could simulate a stapleless boat by filling in the staple holes and it would be VERY hard to tell that they had ever been there!

Rick