board 1: First Deck Layer

I spent last night glassing the deck. It took about 2 1/2 hours from when I mixed the first batch of resin until I was done and had cleaned up. I made the mistake of not saturating the cloth near the pinline and double-sided tape with a brush (as recommended in the Green Light video) first. As a result, there were a lot of air bubbles in that area when I was done glassing the deck, and I it took me a long time to fix that. I had to to mix up additional resin and squeeze out these air pockets one by one. Now I understand why they (Greenlight) recommend starting with the brushwork... I should have listened!

But the deck came out fine in the end. I spent about 18 ounces of resin on the deck, and another 1 1/2 to patch up the air bubbles. I probably could have used less resin by using the sequegee more. Oh well, I decided to focus on getting the bubbles out instead.

The pictures show the board at various stage: the double sided tape applied near the edge of the deck lamination, the glass stretched over the tape, and finally the board immediately after glassing, with the resin still wet.