: Just hoping to get some input: when I glass the inside of the deck
: on my great auk, should i run the cloth up the coaming and glass
: everything at once, or should I glass the inside of the coaming
: seperate? also, when it comes time to tape the inside seam, what
: method is preferred for a newbie such as myself. I was thinking
: I would hot glue a strip of glass to the hull seam, then epoxy
: the halves together, (this seems like the easier method to me)
: or should I unroll the epoxy-soaked fiberglass strip onto the
: seam. (the method in Schade's book) Thanks, the end is in
: sight...

I don't even make the final cutout for the cockpit until both sides of the deck are glassed. Much easier and less time consuming to glass both sides with a full length piece of glass. Much easier to make the cutout after it's glassed and glass the coaming then, to me anyway.

I make my own bias cut tape from scraps from glassing the hull/deck and use fairly short pieces to do the seams inside and out. Playing with full length pieces of tape is a royal pain. With lighter cloth for the tape the laps aren't seen or felt. No reason I can see to use precut tape, it's just too heavy a material and the orientation of the fibers is wrong, bias tape makes the seam much easier.

Bill H.