: First of all, oil sounds like an inefficient mess. I wouldn't
: consider it.

: In Thomas Hill's book Ultralight Boatbuilding, where he shows
: building boats of plywood, he uses epoxy/glass on the bottom for
: abrasion resistance. For the rest, he states very clearly- epoxy
: is for gluing things, paint is for painting things. He details
: multi-year abuse tests on marine plywood that have not failed,
: and says that Paint is all you need. He's not building
: stitch-and-glue, in general he's building lapstrake, so you'll
: have some necessity for fiberglass/epoxy fillets, but you will
: probably be fine painting everywhere else.

: m

Hi Mike,

>>he states very clearly- epoxy is for gluing things, paint is for painting things