Now my plea for help...
Fiber glassed the outside last weekend, sealer coat then 3 coats of epoxy with a roller, squeegee, foam brush to "tip off". Problem is (besides some runs) there are +/-50 visually and tactile ridges / bumps in the finish. all essentially running parallel - my theory is that these were caused by:
1) creases in the FG caused by me unrolling and then rerolling the FG before putting it on the boat (to test fit and cut it);
2) then likely storing the FG roll vertically after a overly loose re rolling that introduced creases / sagging of the stored FG;
3) Insufficiently aggressive squeegee pressure to flatten any ridges out (lessons learnt)
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It seemed like everything was lying flat with no ridges on boat before the epoxy but I guess not. I have started with the scraper to knock down the ridges , but can't get to flat / fair before hitting the FG - leaving the tactile / visual ridges.
My plan is a light sanding over the whole boat for a mechanical bond then another epoxy coat rolled on while attempting to build up / have some extra epoxy depth in the areas besides the ridges by running the squeegee parallel to the ridges so that the epoxy is aggressively scraped from the top of a ridge for little thickness build up but more remains in the "valley" below it in order to feather out the difference as much as possible.
Good plan? Any alternatives I should consider? I assume I should not be cutting all the way into the glass to get to fair first but maybe that is an assumption I shouldn't make.
Insights / advice much appreciated, thanks in advance.