# Quick Question re Fill Coats

**URL:** <https://forum.clcboats.com/t/quick-question-re-fill-coats/37202>\
**Category:** Builder's Forum\
**Created:** [June 23, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/quick-question-re-fill-coats/37202 "2010-06-23T13:44:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zachary\_Carrier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a8b319/32.png) [@Zachary\_Carrier](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Zachary_Carrier)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/quick-question-re-fill-coats/37202/1 "2010-06-23T13:44:34Z")

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I'm sure that I've read the answer here before, but it's currently alluding my search.&nbsp; I'm doing a light fill coat on the interior of my SW17, but the wet-out coat left a few drips with a small bit of pooling in&nbsp;a couple spots.&nbsp; Would you recommend sanding out the drips, etc before the fill-coat or after?&nbsp; I guess my concern would be sanding into the glass if I did it beforehand.&nbsp; Thanks for your help as always.

&nbsp;-Zach

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**Author:** ![pag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@pag](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/pag)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/quick-question-re-fill-coats/37202/2 "2010-06-23T17:54:01Z")

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You really don't need any fill coatsw inside the boat.&nbsp; The exposed weave gives you a little bit of nonj-skid and the extra eposy is just weight.&nbsp; If you have some drips that might snag something then knock them down with sanding or a scraper.&nbsp; If you are talking about the cockpit then a few coast of varnish will prtect you frm teh sun, otherwise leave it as is.

Paul

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**Author:** ![Zachary\_Carrier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a8b319/32.png) [@Zachary\_Carrier](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Zachary_Carrier)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/quick-question-re-fill-coats/37202/3 "2010-06-24T09:15:52Z")

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Thanks Paul. I didn’t have anything near bad enough to cause a usage problem - this was just cosmetic. I ended up sanding/scraping the high spots down in the cockpit and then applied a very thin coat of epoxy to seal it up. It seems to have worked well and shouldn’t have added too much weight. The boat seems to be coming along well.