Now that I've sanded the air bubbles out of the saturation coat, we're ready to put the fiberglass on and laminate that with epoxy. The fiberglass comes in a roll about 6 ft wide and 30 ft long. It's slippery as hell to handle. It's easy to spread over the hull, but after cutting it off the end, it's a pain to try to fold up
remainder for later steps. It's a little tricky on the bow and stern to cut the cloth, and double it over the ends so that it lays flat. Spreading the epoxy is fairly easy and the cloth spreads well until we get to the ends. Then it's a little work to get the ends done without it bunching up. We had good success with the bow, but the stern had a little pucker we'll have to cut out. But that's not a problem because we have to lay a reinforcing strip over the keel in the next step and it will completely clean up the pucker.
Per instructions, I take a plastic squeegee to press the epoxied glass down and press out the excess. I don't get much excess, maybe we did a good job with the roller.
Now the blog is caught up with our progress.
remainder for later steps. It's a little tricky on the bow and stern to cut the cloth, and double it over the ends so that it lays flat. Spreading the epoxy is fairly easy and the cloth spreads well until we get to the ends. Then it's a little work to get the ends done without it bunching up. We had good success with the bow, but the stern had a little pucker we'll have to cut out. But that's not a problem because we have to lay a reinforcing strip over the keel in the next step and it will completely clean up the pucker. 
Per instructions, I take a plastic squeegee to press the epoxied glass down and press out the excess. I don't get much excess, maybe we did a good job with the roller.
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