Can You Use Vinyl ester Resin for Cold Molding?

This is purely hypothetical, so humor me, what are the reasons for not using Vinyl ester (or polyester for that matter) for cold molding or strip planking a wooden boat. Obviously, it has to have some sort of drawbacks since they are much cheaper than epoxy and if they were equal, you'd see cold molded or strip planked boats built with vinyl ester or others. I know other glues have been used i.e. resorcinol and I've heard of a few boats built with Gorilla glue due to the builders severe epoxy allergy.

 

Because they are not formulated as "glue".

 

In my experience gorilla glue is well suited for gluing up strip planking with structural foam; san, pvc or pet. Wouldn't use anywhere else. My only experience with vinyl ester was fiber glassing a wood strip canoe years ago as a demonstration project. Advantages; quick setting, slightly lighter weight and a lot of UV resistance. Disadvantage was I wasn't familiar with the product and almost freaked out while glassing the hull.

 

It can be used. Try some wood scraps and see.