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While working on my new cabin sole, I've been working just in stocking feet?to minimize the chance that I might get epoxy, paint, or varnish on my shoes and tracking it all over the decks.

A couple days ago after fairing the sole in with epoxy, I cheerfully put my shoes on and went on my merry way, varnishing the toerail, and other miscellaneous chores.

Later, I tried to remove my shoes... only to find that I had epoxied my feet into them! D'oh!

hehe... good one.

...hehe...that reminds me...
Several years ago I was repairing a small leak we found when we splashed our Harstad the first time. We had the boat pulled right out when I found water coming in the aft cabin through a bolt-hole. Long story short: I'd been working on the problem for hours, and it was about 4AM. We were scheduled to be splashed again the next morning at 10, and I was doing some last minute epoxy work under the boat. I'd mixed up the last of the epoxy I had and was working as fast as I could to get it all applied before the pot kicked. I could feel the pot heating up, and had run out of rubber gloves, and at the same time dropped the spatula I'd been using to apply the epoxy into the dirt...what to do? Well, at 4AM, just using my hands seemed like a "great idea...." Yup, I got the epoxy applied in time, then my hands, now covered in a thickened epoxy-microbaloon mixture, kicked too. It took me two weeks to get all the epoxy off!! Ooops...

I accidently epoxied a cinderblock to my cockpit sole once.

I was recoring a small section of the sole and I used a cinderblock to weight down the top skin. I covered it with some 6 mil plastic I found and used it to separate the cinderblock from the epoxy. What I didn't notice were the small holes in the plastic I used.

Had to use a sledge to break up the cinderblock and a coldchisel and grinder to get the rest off. No, I didn't take any pictures.

Ceasar Choppy wrote:No, I didn't take any pictures.

Oh, come on! Why not?