I too have done a lot of glass work, building windsurfers, and a few years back I watched a video from a shaper on Maui who used a wet out technique that I wish I had known of or thought of 30 years ago. He uses a large flat table to which he tapes a fresh sheet of poly, wets out the glass on that, then rolls it onto a chunk of PVC pipe and unrolls it onto the board. I can guarantee that the next time I have to do any kind of lay up that's what I'll do.

Good luck