So this step is much easier if you already have the hatches cut out. We didn't get any pictures of it but we fashioned a three foot long extendo-syringe filleter. I took a three foot long, one inch diameter round dowel and put two eye screws in it. Then duct taped the syringe to the end and pushed a small diameter dowel through the eye holes to depress the plunger and squeeze out thickened epoxy to make a fillet along the shear seam. Obviously having the hatches cut out allows you to reach further, and therefore be more accurate with the filleting.
After filleting the seam you lay tape along it as far as you can reach. With the hatches cut you can put tape much further towards the bow and stern.
Then you take non-thickened epoxy and wet out the tape.
We let that cure, sanded it smooth and then tilted it the other way and did the other side.
After filleting the seam you lay tape along it as far as you can reach. With the hatches cut you can put tape much further towards the bow and stern.
Then you take non-thickened epoxy and wet out the tape.
We let that cure, sanded it smooth and then tilted it the other way and did the other side.
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