We started in the aft section and immediately fell victim to some small amount of panic. I (the Nubbish One) had my panties in a slight twist because the Dyslexic Lefty Carpenter had taken charge and was merrily applying fillets while I was still trying to get my plastic gloves on. In my best passive-aggressive way, I told him that he was using the wrong application stick on the fillets (he was using the 1" radius tool on the chines rather than the the 1/4" radius tool). This bought me enough time to grab the other filleting tool and have at it. I really wanted to spread that peanut-buttery stuff in the worst way! After a couple of minutes, we realized I was dead wrong and had to re-do part of it. We had only mixed up enough of the thickened epoxy to complete less than half of the job so there was more panic when we had to mix up more thickened epoxy a couple of times during the job, as well. Applying the glass tape was not bad but brushing on the unthickened epoxy proved to be somewhat of a challenge - it tended to make the tape "buckle" if applied with too much pressure.
In the end, however, it ended up looking okay - don't you think? (That's the filleted and glass-taped aft section pictured above).~posted by the Nubbery One

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