IM> weather.  You must be freezing your butt by now?  
 IM> To-day  was the first really cold day in quite 
 IM> awhile, ( -5 :-)  but the sun was out so I was too. 
 IM>  Its been raining for the last week or longer.  
 IM> Where have you been buying fiber Glass?
 
Apologies for not answering sooner. I have a habit of logging on this board 
just after midnight and invariably find that I'm alloted on a few minutes 
before mail processing knocks me off.
 
The weather girl on local TV gave our forecast as (I'm not kidding) "Cold 
today, cold tonight, colder tommorrow". The guy on the radio was even more 
concise, "Looks cold, feels cold, is cold". -36C tonight. The HIGH for Sunday 
is supposed to be -27C (yes...the HIGH).
 
As for fibreglass...a dilemma. I haven't bought the current stock needed to 
finish the RICHELIEU hull but I really should. The hull will be ready for 
glassing very shortly and I've promised to have it available for "show and 
tell" at the pond this summer. I'm a 100% convert to EPOXY resins and I've 
generally used Z-POXY. Given the sheer size of this ship, I've contemplated 
getting a large quantity of marine epoxy from a boat supply shop. However, 
there doesn't seem to be any major cost saving for amounts below a gallon so 
I may end up buying a few Z-POXY kits locally. As for the actual glass cloth: 
probably two sources. I haven't quite figured out the final "lamination 
protocol" but it will probably include a layer or two of heavy cloth bought 
off the roll from a body shop finished with a layer or two of lightweight (2 
oz. Sig perhaps) cloth from the hobby store.
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