Pictured here is the hatch sporting a fresh coat of epoxy. Before this I rounded over the corners with a router to hopefully give it a bit of a fibreglass look. I don't like hard edges on boats anyway. I had to deeply countersink all the nails so the router wouldn't catch them. I wish I had simply used lots of clamps or made up a clamping form since a number of nails poked through the sides and had to be driven out.

Besides the nail-holes, there were a number of small voids visible in the ply edges, and a gouge caused by a slip of the router. These I filled with a thin filler mix like I used to laminate the top on, letting the epoxy stand a little proud. A little sanding and filing and those hacks and holes were all just bad memories.

To do one side took 150cc of mixed epoxy with no thickening agents. The Epiglass epoxy redly soaked into the wood without the need for thinners. After rolling it on with a foam roller, dry spots began appearing quickly. I knocked down the bubbles left by the roller with a piece of flexible plastic quickly liberated from an
ice cream container.

I've only got around 200cc left of the epoxy and I've still got the other side to do, and another coat over the whole thing. I don't think I'm going to make it. But no matter - there's still the paint to buy too.