: Sean,

: Since you aren't leaving a fiberglass tube, I imagine the edge of
: your drilled hole is still bare wood. Is that right? It looks
: like you're putting them in prior to glassing, anyway, but I
: don't get how the wood is getting sealed, if it is.

: :

It was bare wood until I ran a coat of thin expoxy to saok into the wood. Then I ran some thickened epoxy around the hole afterwards. I then cleaned it up with fine sandpaper. Worked out fine but you can oversize the hole first, fill it with epoxy and then drill that out afterwards - which is the way a lot of people go.

Sean