: Hello!
: I've got a whole slurry of questions and maybe a comment or two and, hey,
: I'll post pix of some of this stuff as soon as my new camera arrives, if
: you're that interested...

: 1. Golly! How do you do a s&g anyway? Kind of curious and I don't really feel
: like buying a book... Let's say that you have your hull panels lofted and
: cut. You want to stitch them together.
: a. How close to the edges do you make the stitch holes?
: b. How far apart do you make the stitch holes?

Pygmy recommends making a guide for both these. It is a piece of scrap plywood 1/2"x6-1/2" with two 1/16" holes in it, centered 1/4" in from the ends. This makes it easy to drill holes 1/4" from the panel edge, 6" apart.

: c. How do you get them to line up from panel to panel?

On the keel panels, stack them and do both panels at once. The others are matched as you go.

: And then you start gluing, great. So, uh, yeah. So you make a fillet and tape
: the inside.

That is CLC's method. On Pygmys, basically you glue the panels with unthickened epoxy, pull the wires, fill the outside with thickened epoxy, sand the joint smooth and glass the outside. Then lightly fillet the inside and glass it, not with tape, but glass fabric like the outside.

: d. Well, what if you started by taping the outsides, letting that firm up and
: then filleted/taped the insides? I'm thinking that there would be gaps
: between panels and with this method one could fill them very easily (from
: the inside) without creating a mess on the other side that would later
: have to be cleaned up (in one way or another). Hmm. You might even be able
: to use a less solid (more fluid) epoxy fillet 'cause you know that it
: isn't going to flow out anywhere...

Similar to Pygmy's method.

: 2. It's all about fill coats... If you were being silly and took a medium
: fast hardener you might notice that the epoxy is a bit thicker when you
: put it on. If that were the case then you might not need three coats (wet
: + 2 fill) of epoxy everywhere. Sure, there might be a few small places
: that you would want to fill (where you see the weave) but mostly
: everything would be ok. Well... And then, what if you weren't being very
: clever and filled only the spots that needed filling (and didn't thin the
: thick epoxy with anything) and ended up with a decidedly non-uniform
: surface?
: Is the best 'solution' to sand/scrape the edges (roughly 1/3 of the surface)
: or maybe to put on another layer of really thinned epoxy over the whole
: surface first and then to sand/scrape? (I could add, is it best to do that
: while the epoxy is still young or to wait, but -I- think that it's best
: when it's young. If you have a differening opinion, please, don't
: hesitate.)

: 3. La la la! Maybe the living room wasn't the best place to build a 'yak
: after all It's nice in that I can close all of the doors and only make
: a mess in one place. It's problematice because it's right in the middle of
: the house and you -have- to walk through it to get from one side to the
: other - through it and over 'yak pieces that might, maybe, be covered in
: epoxy...

: 4. Spam. Arg! Hate it, hate it, hate it! It won't help much for the board,
: but for personal use I highly recommend sneakemail... I can create
: addresses at will and when I receive email at one I always know where my
: address was 'harvested'... It is equally simply to destroy addresses and
: create new ones...

: 5. Say, does anyone have any photos of a Cormorant with the panneled deck?

: Maybe next time I'll do that as individual posts!

: cheers!
: charles