Deck Glassing Part II

Fiberglassing the deck was significantly easier than fiberglassing the hull. The fabric was lighter and wet out easier, and the flatter surface kept runaway epoxy to a minimum. The glass drapes over the side of the boat and overlaps the hull by an inch. I followed the technique illustrated on this blog by Laszlo, as he builds a Wood Duck kayak. Two inch wide clear packing tape is applied to the hull one inch below the edge of the deck. The fiberglass cloth is wet out, applied to the deck, and wrapped around the sheer and applied up to the tape.

 Before the epoxy reaches full cure you gently pull the fabric away from the tape and cut/tear the cloth at the edge of the tape. Despite removing the packaging tape immediately after cutting the excess away I was still left with a lot of adhesive residue from the packing tape. I switched to blue painter's tape and did not have the same problem.

Blue painter's tape defines the edge for cutting away excess cloth

Rice paper logo graphic under fiberglass