: See this page from Vaclav's site. Looks like it should find all the low
: spots.

Good site! As someone interested in kit cars since HS, there was an article in one of the magazines, back when I was in college, that said to use two different colors of primer. Spray a coat of one color, then spray a coat of the second color, sand until the body is a uniform color of the first coat of primer or you sanded through. Problem with auto primer on a kayak is that most primers have added body for filling before painting, since most strippers want to show off the wood and not cover it, using two coats of lacquer paint makes more sense since there is no body to the paint and it won't fill. The reason I suggest lacquer is that I do not believe lacquer thinner will affect the epoxy, in the even you have to remove the remainder of the paint the hard way.

I will disagree with one point the author of the site made and that is varnish *will* fill ... eventually. From a practical point of view, it takes a very long time to build varnish up to fill in low spots (I did this on an oak dresser for my son and I went through a *lot* of polyurethane).

Paul