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We did it in 3 steps and had 2 very small bubbles, both of which are not going to be seen and were easily patched. We should have glassed the bottom in 2 steps with the over lap, it would have saved us so much time. We had everything laid out, etc. but the fiberglass cloth moves and shifts and of course it did and that left a bunch of air bubbles near the butt block. I can not stress enough that glassing this in 2 steps for people who are new to glassing would make it much easier. We would have epoxied the first part in the morning, and then in the evening we would have added the second piece of fabric (as long as the area was not tacky) and epoxied. We spent 2 extra days sanding and fixing patches when we could have been moving on to other things.
We had the same issue, unfortunately we had laid lots of large fillets before realizing our mistake. Our plan is now a large round over and we had to sand large fillets to be smooth. Honestly, I would call CLC on Monday because it really is NOT clear, we believe that the quarter panels should be aligned with the galley flat, which we did not do. We had large gaps and had to use a router where the panels stuck up on the bottom. You won’t know you made a mistake until you fit the transom and the bottom on. Hopefully they can fix this in future kits, although we are a little relieved to see it’s not just us having an issue with this:)
