: Hi Greg,
: Yep different guages mean plenty of thinking and "fun"
: ahead.
: To recover, get into using a fairing board and say 60 grit
: paper.Random Orbital Sander is quite good,but you can loose a
: bit of weight doing it by hand.I use the first thing that comes
: to hand usually,but I've settled on some of that white semi
: flexible and hard packaging foam roughly a foot square x inch or
: two deep ,in your units?,so the pad bridges the
: "valleys".Be ruthless with the strokes, "cross
: hatching"at 45 degrees ish to see the new paper trail on
: the high areas as it were and use the idea of the low
: rising/setting of the sun or torch[if you must] to cast the
: shadows of the high areas onto the boat surface.I actually do
: use the sun 'cause I'm a romantic nut and kayak building,
: invariably ,gets me up before dawn...It's just more work, which,
: in the end will keep you honest. I know....Oh and ,I think, bead
: and cove is really not nessesesry like Rob says it's work for
: little gain if you can just get over the simple art of
: bevelling.Gap filling,I actully don't because the filler is so
: ugly.Slip in some wood.cheers.

Actually for kayaks, auto body hand sanders work really well as fairing boards. Ready made, available in various flexibility and take a standard size self adhesive sandpaper.

Bill H.