Dec wrote::lol: I do have a rather useless collection of tools, and hardware because of my boating job. That kinda helped.
But I stole the shape from the internet
Tut, tut, tut, you wouldn't catch me doing that! And if you think your colection of tools is useless you wanna see some of the things we've got in my mates workshop.
Sorry dec for missing this one for some reason it slipped past my beady eyes.
Tomcat has answered most of your glassing questions i think.
Hotcoat is also called the sanding coat and it goes on after glassing. Basically it's resin, hardner and an additive called 5% wax in styrene. You use about 2% of this stuff and what happens is the wax that's in it rises to the top of the resin as it goes off creating an air tight film thaty allows the resin to cure properly and makes it dry to the touch and hence sands very easily as opposed to gunking up sand paper etc.
As for wrapping the rails, personally i'd cut enough fibreglass to let it hang off the edges of the board by 50-75 cm. When you laminate as tomcat suggested ensure that the hanging fibre glass is nice and wet. That way it wil have enough weight to keep the glass nice and close to the edge whereas wrapping tight rails is likely to induce air bubbles and just be a pain in the arse.
When teh rsin gells or goes green you can trim the excess easily by running a stanley blade along the underside of the board.
When you come to do the other side repeat the process and your rail will now be effectively wrapped.
However this reply may have come too late for you if you've already started glassing, in which ignore all of the above.
Glass the top and bottom up to the edge. Then either with some fibreglass tape or lengths of matting (are you using matting or chopped strand glass) you can glass this onto the edges but it might not be that easy.
Anyway for the type of board your making just resin will probably be fine by itself.
KS
