Brickman: The process is called "tabbing" in the business (boats primarily). What you do is lay your plywood in place, then lay up strips of fiberglass in an L shape , part of it on the plywood and the other part of the L on the body. You wet it out, then you lay another L shaped piece over the top of that one, with each sucessive one slightly wider than the last one, so that each one goes out a little further than the last one. The reason for this is so you don't create a hard, sharp place, where the glass can start to crack out. Each L is wider than the last one, if you can envision that. When I start the glassing I will take pictures to show this.

J: You probably put enough gap in those ones you did to be ok, it doesn't have to be a huge gap, just like a 1/4 inch or so. Yeah, I learn something all the time, and this forum has been a real learning experience, as we have some really talented folks on here, in a lot of areas. Wish I would have had a forum like this years ago.


Don