With the excitement of finishing the main hull construction behind me its been a boring week since as I prep the deck for sealing. Plan is to hit all of it with west system 207, then varnish upper decks, paint the side decks and I'm not sure what to do with the floor. Mainly because it's going to have a bunch of stuff on it. Perhaps 207, then stuff, then varnish. Why varnish? To improve the UV resistance. I've seen conflicting advice on 207 on the gunwhales. The main alternative is to oil them. This requires some up keep but seems less likely to crack. So I may leave the outers outside the Epoxy coating. Anyway back to the present. First task was to fill the little pinholes and slight depressions in the glue lines. That done I moved to filling the screw holes in the outer gunwhales. I cut plugs out of a damaged section of the ash (am keeping the remnants for boats for my kids next). These are 1/4" Test hole filled. Holes plugged ...