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Spent all day cleaning up the interior instead of only 2 hours. At the end of the day I decided to buy a router and a power sander to speed up the process.

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Bought a Bosch POF 1200AE router and Makita sanding machine in the morning. Used the sanding machine to tidy up the port gunwales. Rounded off the port gunwales with the router. In the afternoon I bought a Stanley moisture meter to read out the moisture percentage of the plywood. This was 12-13% which is dry enough for coating with epoxy. In the late afternoon I removed the excess epoxy underneath the gunwales with a scraper and chisel. This took an amazing amount of time. At the end of the day I had removed the excess epoxy under the port gunwale.

Lessons learned:

Stick your protective tape tightly on to the wood before using epoxy on it.
Clean up your work including removing protective tape before the epoxy has fully cured.

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