: Hey, folks. I may decide to grind off all the glass from my deck and start
: over(the "I blew my deck" post from Monday). I just can't get
: past the size and quantity of the imperfections, and I've caught myself
: avoiding showing the boat to visitors because I was embarrassed by the
: deck. I just won't be happy until it's fixed. The decison isn't entirely
: made yet, so I have an additional question.

: If I re-do the deck glassing, I'm puzzled about how much sanding I have to do
: once the glass is off. That is, how deep did the resin soak in? I need to
: get deep enough to get rid of some splotches left by the tinted Durhams.
: The concern is that if the resin soaked in really well, then I may have to
: go deep which will put me in danger of sanding all the way through, or
: opening up some areas where sanding is creating gaps where there were none
: before. If it just barely soaks in to the surface, then I'm fine. I'm also
: concerend that if I leave any of the resin, then I'll still have a
: splotchy deck, but for different reasons.

: So, at what point do I stop sanding? All the way to bare wood with no signs
: of resin and hope I don't go through, or what? What if some spots still
: have soaked in resin and some are bare wood... will that show up
: differnetly once I've reapplied the glass?

: Any and all advice is GREATLY appreciated!

Hi Rick,

are sure you don't want to finsih as is, and fix it next winter? Working on the kayak on a beautiful paddling day is kinda a mixed pleasure. maybe you should just build another one... you know your going to anyways.

Also, if you use Spar varnish, it will help hide the sploch just a tiny bit more, as it is slightly yellow tinted.

Do a search on CPES from the forum... there was discusion on this new penetrating epoxy type product. including how deep it penetrated in the wood. Epoxy will be that or less. From memory this stuff would penitrate a few inches, from the end of the board, but only small fractions of an inch from the side of the board.

I think if you used 1/4 thick strips, and did not get carried away with sanding the first time you will be okay.

I understand that to do what you are proposing, you must get ALL epoxy off, or you will end up with more sploches, this time darker. That is based on my memory from reading other posts. However I'd be tempted to just sand down to the wood in the sploched areas going a bit larger than the defect, and, put a patch in , and epoxy over that, then see if that is acceptable. However, my personality is such that I hate wasting time, material, and do not mind 'character' marks. If you still hated it, you could do the full monty.

You are going into waters I've never been in, these are just my opinions.

Can you get us a picture of these evil sploches? then a picture of the fixed version. That way we can get a feel for the impovement, vs work put in for future reference.

What ever you do, hope it turns out to your satisfaction,

Cheers,

Myrl