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09-06-2008 06:18 PM #12
I am not sure which "Centerville" or "Centreville" you are at but there are several of each in Virginia. I built two small boats and covered them with glass cloth and polyester resin which I bought from a shop just north of Petersburg on Route 1 but I forget the exact name. I seem to recall I paid about $40/gallon for resin several years ago. Also there is a boat repair shop in the Hanover Air Park near Ashland from which I have bought yards of woven glass cloth at a reasonable price. Surely there must be a boat repair shop near you? One humorous warning is that when I built the first boat I glued on the cloth with a little resin and then "kicked" about a quart of resin and dumped it on the bottom of the inverted hull thinking I would spread it around. Well, later I used a body sander for hours (!) to get that lump of hardened resin blended in to the rest of the hull. Lesson: don't "kick" any more than you can spread within about 5 to 10 minutes or be prepared to do a lot of grinding later!
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder





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