Mix the resin 
Put the resin and hardener into the cup and mix well. I would use two packets of resin from the 6 pack (not pictured because I'm using the pumps)

Now here's where I get technical. Add a teaspoon of aluminum powder and mix it into the resin. It's not super critical about the amount. This stuff makes the resin harder by adding microscopic (or at least really fine) aluminum dust to the resin.  When it cures, you can see little "sparklies" in the black epoxy which help reduce wear caused by the Bubba factor.

Add a teaspoon of graphite powder.  This stuff is REALLY messy.  Don't do it when it's windy outside.  Stir it in as well.  This secret ingredient makes your skid plate slide more easily so that big honking rock has a harder time connecting with the resin.  The fresh rosemary adds that delicate hint of spring and and goes good with a white wine.

Mix well and you'll end up with black goo, Texas Tea, or at least this stuff is made out of Texas Tea - epoxy resin is a petro chemical.

Kevlar Felt
This is what kevlar felt looks like.  It is simply felt which is made of kevlar fibers. I just cut a little strip to start. BUT, the key is in the cutting.  You'll need really sharp, good quality scissors.  Kevlar is unbelievably tough to cut and also comes from Texas Tea like epoxy resin.  Without oil, we'd all be paddling birchbark canoes and trust me, the repairs are much more difficult in birchbark - let alone the crazies who'd be protesting and beating tom-toms at the canoe landing for your using a tree improperly. And then, there's the stepping on helpless, baby protozoans in the parking lot as you carried your birchbark canoe to the water, issue.  How insensitive!!  We need more laws to stop this!!!

Trim the Felt
Check the felt for size by laying it over the boo boo. I like to cut the ends of it into points to make it lay down more neatly and make a smoother bump.  There will be a little bump because the felt swells up with resin.  In fact, that is what we are trying to accomplish.  The felt allows us to make a thick layer of resin reinforced by a zillion kevlar fibers to prevent it from shattering on impact as a thick layer of resin minus the felt fibers will do.  It acts just like reinforcement rod in concrete.

Put the strip in the black goo and stir it.  You goal is to get it completely soaked in resin.

Looks like a synthetic blood sucker.

I like to squeeze out some of the excess goo so it's not too drippy on the canoe to try to prevent it from running down the sides.  Note the gloves.  Since this is epoxy resin and since epoxy resin can be a skin sensitizer to some folks, you want to wear gloves and minimize your skin contact with the stuff lest ye develop an allergic reaction to it.  It can bother some people like a  bad bee sting reaction and we suspect that it bothers women more than men. Well, that would make sense given men's superiority when compared to women - KIDDING!.  Actually, the folks at Souris River are who let us know about the allergic reactions of epoxy in men vs. women and found (anecdotally) that women appeared to be more sensitive to the epoxy resin (and a whole other bunch of issues that we won't cover here - Kidding, again!)  Anyway - wear gloves no matter what your gender.

Simply set the gooey strip onto the
boo boo area.

Not hard to do at all, in fact I'm doing this in one of my very best, slightly wrinkled T-shirts.