Sandblasting as prep for new glass

[bigeasy1]

Other than the Epoxy I used to glue the marine fir plywood together with,I did the rest of my transom and motor beds with a mix of polyester and vinylester.Most was done with polyester,but I got some vinylester from Joe at Mertons that we had in some damaged containers for a budget price,so I finished up with it.
At my age,the polyester will hold up and out live me,but if I was a young guy,I'd go with the vinylester,if I was doing a restore.
It's so much easier to wet out fabric with it as compared to epoxy,and the tensile strength and secondary bond,and water resistence is much better than polyester,and the strengths approach epoxy,(and in some cases are even stronger than epoxy).It's also less costly than epoxy.