Last weekend I had the pleasure to meet (again) Nick at the MATB. I said hi and immediately told him I had a guillemot 17 that I was filling cracks and crevices before glassing. His first words to me: "Don't Obsess".

So, taking that advice to heart, last night (the first of many late ones I'm sure) I seal coated my deck. My mantra: "don't obsess, don't obsess". So all my mistakes are now memorialized under a seal coat. Not sure whether I should lay the fiberglass on the deck now, separate the boat and work on the hull, or if I should separate now and glass the deck after the hull is done per the book. It seems like it would be easy to glass the deck now, and make it stronger before I separate it.

I'll try and post a pic. . . first time. If you want and the pic doesn;t work, you can do the PhotoIsland thing. login: pbkayaks password: kayak album: guillemot