Brushes, Squeegees and Rollers all have advantages and disadvantages for boatbuilding epoxy coating. This explains and provides useful tips.

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How common are Epoxy Resin allergies and what are there strategies for reducing the chance of building an allergy? I will discuss building strategies, materials choices and useful production work practices.

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Sandpaper - don't use COARSER THAN 100grit ON TIMBER TO BE GLUED (or Painted/Varnished). We provide reasons.

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College build 20 boats - The PHBYC yearly boatbuilding program is 20 Oz Goose sailboats to start a sailing curriculum for the Cadet training. These are young engineers.

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One of the best instructional videos on the net. How will Chris Heubert of the creative steampunk website LostWax go building a plywood canoe - he normally builds amazing things out of common materials, provides patterns and "how to" videos.

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First Photos epoxy fillet OZ Goose plywood sailing dinghy. Why choose fillets rather than timber? Explained.

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Judging their own work so harshly; one reason is that we all get used to looking at the boat construction from a few inches away so we over value both mistakes and an idea of perfectionism.

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More photos of Fenwick Williams Catboat built in Strip Plank by David Wilson at Duckflat, Adelaide

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Peter McKenzie and his sons from Queensland Sunshine Coast built a standard Eureka paddling canoe.

Weight was the standard 44lbs. Peter's email gives some nice tips.

They are very happy campers.

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A 12lb canoe. The idea was to build a Rushton Wee Lassie in balsa strip with very light glass. The boat ended up being fairly durable despite not being interested in durability. As far as I was concerned I was going to be happy if it lasted a couple of years before being chucked into a dumpster somewhere. But five years later it was still beautiful despite good use.

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