: I had just about decided to blow off filling the stitch holes on my Solace 16
: LT since with 10 hull panels I was looking at around 600 holes to fill in
: the hull alone. Then I went browsing through Vaclav's site one more time
: to see what I could find and LO and BEHOLD, the page I'd been looking for.
: Durham's Water Putty looks like the stuff. I went out and bought a can
: last night and mixed up a test batch to see what it was like. $1.97 at the
: big box home improvement store.

: I'll go home tonight and play with some coloring agents to get some kind of
: color match but it looks like it should work. If anyone has used this
: stuff, what did you think?

I colored Durham's with aniline dye see the post below.

The trick I use to filling holes on S&Gs is to mask the outside of the seam between stitches and glue between the stitches from the inside with loosely thickened epoxy (less than mayo thick but more than honey thick) so it flows through the crack to the tape. After cured remove the wires and mask the remaining portions of the seam and the holes and complete gluing the seam with the loosely thickened epoxy. At the same time make the full fillet using a radiused strike-off tool (tongue depressor) and let it set until rubbery (a couple hours). Then apply the glass tape with unthickened epoxy.

The holes will fill without wetting the outside plywood and without drips on the outsde to sand off. The fillets will be nice and even without the finger/brush/spatula dents.

I thicken the epoxy with fumed silica with only enough wood flour to color match the epoxy wetted wood.