Glass on deck

It rained buckets yesterday so I decided not to glass the deck, thinking the excess humidity might fog the epoxy, which I didn't want because I'm gonna finish the deck bright. This morning, however, was blue skies. Here, I've got the glass laid on the deck (one 16 foot piece of 27" glass - 3.6 oz), and the edge cut so that there's a one inch overlap down the hulls. I also applied masking tape just below the rub-rail line, sticking only the top edge to the hull, with the bottom edge flared outward a bit. This is a surfboard glasser's trick - any epoxy resin that runs over the edge will run down the tape and drip on the ground instead of down the hull. Makes for no drips or runs, which keeps me from having to sand the runs away after the resin cures.

I used a light misting of 3M 45 spray adhesive along the edges just to keep the glass in place. I find that the adhesive makes the job a lot easier: the glass doesn't shift around or float. It just stays right where you put it. This was necessary today especially. It was very windy and the glass was getting blown around a bit.