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I've been busying myself this weekend glassing the hull of my Outer Island. I decided to do the extra football-shaped piece on the outside of the full layer, epoxying through both layers, and everything seemed to be going well. I rolled on the epoxy, used a bubble roller, and did what I thought was a meticulous squeegee-ing. But as I laid 2 fill coats, I started noticing tiny bubbles in rows in the football area -- tiny bubbles in the open squares between glass fibers. They were impossible to see while the top of the weave was still exposed, and it wasn't until the fill coats smoothed the surface that they became noticeable.
I think I'll start buying my kayaks...
Dean
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