[Liam]

Originally Posted by carboncow

Going to keep bugging you!

1. Why not poly...which one sticks better to the old glass too?
epoxy would be the best choice and will stick to old work the best,then vinylester,the fumes are pretty rough with vinylester though,then polyester which won't stick to epoxy nor is very waterproof over the long term. I am not saying it would be wrong to use poly, a lot of boat builders do,i believe the original construction on your boat is poly,but if you plan on keeping the boat for a while I would use vinylester,just get a good respirator,if money is not an issue and you are keeping the boat for ever use epoxy,lol

2. I'm trying to get a grasp on how many yards of 50" 1708. How much did you buy/use...or did I miss that somewhere?
I buy mine in smaller orders online from uscomposites,i buy enough for each part of the project,as I recall I bought 5 yards for the stringers

We found one vendor selling a roll of 48" yard very reasonably but that seems like a lot if only doing one layer on the stringers and two on the deck. We'll take some measurements this weekend on the boat to come up with our theory of quantity.

3. How much resin would you also recommend based on my photo and if we had todo two tall stringers front to back. My buddy thinks 3 would due but I'm always the pessimist and think 5 is the safe thing.

Your going to need a lot of resin,i used 3 gallons for the transom,1708 sucks up a lot of resin. You can keep the amount of resin down by building with the "wet on wet" method which makes for a stronger bond and uses less resin. I would guess 3 gallons would be about right for the stringers,make sure you order plenty of cabosil also,one quart of cabosil to one quart of vinylester will get you pretty close to a peanut butter consistency