{"id":1258,"date":"2010-03-20T21:49:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T01:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:21","slug":"eva-too-taped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/eva-too-taped\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Too &#8211; Taped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Sleeping-Santas-Mud-Wrestling-and-Hungarian-Dancing-Sziget-Festival-2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1259\" title=\"mud wrestlers or boatbuilders?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Sleeping-Santas-Mud-Wrestling-and-Hungarian-Dancing-Sziget-Festival-2009-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"photo of two people mud wrestling\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>These folks look experienced with the glue part of stitch-n-glue boatbuilding.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to fully fill the seams with thickened epoxy and add fiberglass tape for strength. As an aside, the &#8220;tape&#8221; is simply fiberglass fabric that is 4 inches wide, finished on each edge to avoid fraying. Filling the seams is the same as I did with &#8220;tabbing&#8221; in the previous post, spreading thickened epoxy with a rounded stick about 1 inch wide. Affixing the tape is with unthickened epoxy, regular stuff that&#8217;s slightly less viscous than molasses. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clcboats.com\/shoptips\/epoxy_and_fiberglass\/\">CLC&#8217;s instructions<\/a> suggest painting on a coat of epoxy, pressing the cloth in place, and then painting on more epoxy to saturate the cloth. Another fellow I read suggests soaking the cloth strip in epoxy to saturate it, then placing it in the boat and spreading out the excess with a gloved hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mc13_taped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1260\" title=\"taped and sealed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mc13_taped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"photo of inside of hull showing taped seams\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I tried both ways, always with gloves. Both methods work, but one feels like you&#8217;re retrieving your waffle from a vat of <span class=\"strike\">syrup<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kb4qJ5Za6zY\">chocolate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The interior of this boat will get no more fiberglass. A few people glass both the exterior and interior of their boats. I think those are the people who don&#8217;t mind the extra weight and want the extra strength for extreme canoeing adventures. This boat will get two very thin coats of epoxy as a sealer. Another finish will be added later for UV protection (epoxy has very little). The first coat is on, applied with a short nap foam roller which really spreads the epoxy thin, helping minimize weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These folks look experienced with the glue part of stitch-n-glue boatbuilding. It&#8217;s time to fully fill the seams with thickened epoxy and add fiberglass tape for strength. As an aside, the &#8220;tape&#8221; is simply fiberglass fabric that is 4 inches wide, finished on each edge to avoid fraying. Filling the seams is the same as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boatbuilding","7":"category-eva-too","8":"category-mill-creek-13","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}