Glass virgin

We got MAS epoxy in our Chesapeake Light Craft Northeaster Dory kit and that project so far has been going swimmingly. But I wanted to learn about handling glass. I used to work doing sail repair in a sailing club's boat repair shop so I thought I could handle a little fiberglass & epoxy project simply based on the training I got by osmosis. What should I fix?

The old toboggan in the garage called out to me. My 250 lb. ex and I rammed it hard into a tree trying to sled down a winding hiking trail. The fang-like splinters of the starboard rail were subdued with copious applications of duct tape, and so they remained for lo these decades. It was unslightly but not so broken that my pregnant sister and I couldn't take the toboggan way too fast down a notoriously icy sledding hill and slam into the tennis court fence at the bottom. The stars I saw on impact possibly prevented any fracture to my tibias; my riding in the bow possibly protected her precious cargo (her son is a now strapping 5' 7" 15 year old).

So here is my repair strategy. I laminated corrugated cardboard and woven cloth I found in the basement, and used the intact bow (or whatever you call the curled up front part of a toboggan) to form the curvature the new piece was to match. I spliced the built piece onto the existing rail and layered more cloth to join it together. I was pleased to see the epoxy holding everything just as I expected! I'm not done yet (the dory project has been dominating my bench time) but I intend to wrap woven glass tape around the cut edges and screw the prosthesis in place. I think it's pretty convincing though it's obviously not original equipment.