: Don't TEMPT me (-:
: What little I know suggests that Dacron is a strong stable fabric
: that can probably be pulled around a bit when wet with epoxy.
: Not that you would want to get into a situation where you would
: NEED to, but as an escape hatch the option is open.

: I was mulling through it and thought that just MAYBE a first cloth
: layer could be tensioned and held in place for the initial pour.
: Once all the gaps are bridged the spreading technique may be not
: quite so critical.

: I've asked if he can make up a cardboard core kit for a stand-up
: paddle board.
: Other than that, I don't think I will be doing much with this
: approach, but it IS interesting.

One of the problems of what he's trying to do is that glass fabric was never intended to be wet out all by itself. It's normally applied over a substrate of some sort, like we do with kayaks over wood, or done in a mold with the mold being the substrate. The resin tends to drain out of the weave leaving it full of pinholes if used alone.

Actually the Dacron wetted out with resin behaves much like it does dry, it's not very stretchy. Has an advantage used with fiberglass as it acts as the substrate keeping the weave filled with epoxy. I've been through a bunch of combinations getting this process to work, lots of icky messes of fabric/resin that got tossed with failed experiments :)

Bill H.