Hi,
I'm building a Chesapeake 17 from a kit. As you know, you lay fiberglass tape on the fillets. Well, on one side of my tape, the factory edge isn't nice and flat but instead has a little ridge on it so it sticks up a bit, even when wetted out with epoxy. It doesn't stick up off the wood, but just not laying super flat. The little ridge is quite obvious (not to mention quite rough). Has anybody else experieced this? Any way around it? The tape looks kind of dumb when one side lays flat on the wood and the other side has a little ridge on it.
Advice? Too late for this boat, but looking for advice for the next boat. (This is my practice boat, and believe me it's not going to win any awards! I knew going into this project, that if you want to do something RIGHT you have to do it TWICE!)
--Mark