Chuck

Lee's said all there is to it. Be patient, the ugly duckling will grow into a swan, it just takes a fill coat and a little sanding sequence. Just wait till the varnish goes on, you won't believe it! Makes all the screwing around with the %&%%$% epoxy worth it ( I hate the damn stuff, too!)

Hey, my big thing, and if you knew this already, forgive me for babbling (age thing): make up a bucket of straight, hot water and give the epoxied surface a rub down with the hot water and a scrub pad. There is a blush on the epoxy in some level-on all cured epoxies. (There are some who will gnash their teeth and roll their eyes, but WTF do they know, the pogues!). A good thing is to do the wash and rinse, then after drying, give it a roughing up of 80 grain paper to make a better mechanical bonding. It can only help.

You know, I hate putzing with the epoxy, too. I have gouges and scrapes on my yak from the recent trip and damn if it was going to the huge effort to make a pristine looking thing when I'll just scrape and bang it up again. I just schlop on the epoxy on the hull bangs, dents and scrapes and say "good enough"