Fiberglassing a Strip Built Kayak
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Laying out fiberglass, wetting it out with epoxy, removing the excess and applying a fill coat. For this particular boat this will not be the last coat of glass on the hull. Another layer will be added after attaching the deck. Some of the techniques I used in this video are based on that expectation. For more information about this video visit: http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillemot/blog/nick/fiberglassing_hull This series of videos shows the steps of building a wooden kayak using the "strip-planked" or "strip-built" method. This particular boat is a double paddle canoe design called the microBootlegger by Guillemot Kayaks. More information about the boat is available at http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com . Further information about the building techniques shown in these videos is available in the book "Building Strip-Planked Boats": http://building-strip-planked-boats.com/ For more videos in this series please visit: http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillemot/blog
While curing resin can generate quite a bit of heat, if the layup is thin enough the heat will dissipate quickly, it shouldn't build up enough to damage your original boat. Building up the layers incrementally would reduce the risk, but I doubt you would need to wait as long as a day between layers.
You may want to try some practice layups. Just laying up several layers on a waxed sample and either measuring the temperature with a IR thermometer or touching it with your hand should give you a sense of how hot the layup process would get.
Just to keep the cost as low as i can.
How much epoxy will a 12 feet(370cm) Sit On Top will i have to buy?
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and where I can get.
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