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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
Nah! just tell everyone who notices them that you did that on purpose....To reduce weight.
Greg
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