Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport
just can't bring myself to thin a waterproofer
one area where i still will have to differ from you guys' expertise.....i think you get better waterproofing if the outer mm or 2 of plywood is completely saturated with thinned resin, so i still thin mine as much as 50/50 or even 60/40 so it soaks in and fills in between wood fibers. use less solvent for the top coat if you want, but the resin saturation actually stiffens the panel noticeably long before you get any build on the top surface. it is slower doing it this way, but i think it's worth it. i'm not trying to coat it so much as incorporate the resin into the wood.....so there's no room for water to soak into the wood. a gouge in your coating and all protection is lost if you just coat it on the top surface, but this almost makes the outer layers of the wood into sort of a composite where the wood fibers act as the "glass cloth".
you may recall the NatGeo project a couple of years back on the sense of smell, where they determined that it's no illusion that the memories of odrs stay with us longer than most anything else? for me, the smell of straight epoxy always takes me back to Cub Scouts and school science fairs (gluing fossils onto a board)....
