"Ron White" writes:

I am helping a friend who is building a 35' motor trawler. It is planked
with marine ply and epoxy glued and it soon need fairing. Are there any
good commercially available epoxy fairing compounds in 5 gallon units?

You want to do the job cheap or do it right?

If it were my project, I'd start buying epoxy in 500 lb drums, hardner in 40
lb pails and Dic-A-Perl microballoons in 30 lb bags.

Use DB170, 17 oz double bias glass, comes in approximately 220 lb rolls.

The composites industry is going bonkers right now.

Both glass and foam are on allocation.

Don't even think about carbon fiber.

There is an outfit making 30,000 carbon fiber hockey sticks and they can't
keep up with demand.

Expect 8 wks for a roll of DB170.

If you can use vendors located in SoCal, contact me off list.

BTW, glass first, fairing last.

HTH


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