I sanded the coaming with 60 grit. How much further do I need to go? Do I need to sand away all of the hardened epoxy? Thanks
It is your build, so you can accept what you have or go further. On my builds, I like it perfectly smooth because I see and touch it every time that I paddle. For this task, I use a flap wheel in my drill.
Regardless of how smooth you make it, you will want to fill those gaps with some thickened epoxy. Try to match the wood color by use of both Cell-o-fil and wood flour.
Agree with mark, you need to fill in those gaps.
To the extent you can compress them with clamps, great, if not, that’s ok too. thickened epoxy with cabosil and a bit of wood flour should do to get a decent match.
your sanding, otherwise looks pretty good to me. you can take it a bit farther in a couple places to get down to bare wood. but the little non-fare places you have will be ok too. as long as the walls are flat.
after you fill in the gaps, you can then round over the inside edge of the coaming…then final sand with 100/120 grit.
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I agree that the coaming is a prominent and visible part of the boat that attracts the eye. Everyone likes smooth curves. I never heard of a flap wheel but it will be on my shopping list. I was going to fill the gaps where the coaming base pieces meet (or were supposed to). The deck beam, was also so close to where I trimmed the deck, I gouged it. Or I was not being careful enough. I’ll just make up more color matched hardened resin to fill all the gaps and gouges. Thanks!
