HULL REPAIR

[grouperfever]

Mike's Marine Ways in Wakulla county does a good job. I have no affiliation with them other than we've had to use them a few times recently. They can pick your boat up off your trailer there. Had to do that to ours, unfortunately. Some things in life I don't want to know how to do. That is one of them. If you do it yourself good luck sir.

[Chalk]

2006 post...it's alive...it's alive

[KyTrkyHntr]

2006 post...it's alive...it's alive

[Flint River Pirate]

Wow,that's an old post.

[KyTrkyHntr]

Thought I would reply back on this post after searching "gel coat" repair threads on here and have had success so far..... I went to iBoats.com and order the "patch kits" for my boat. I had a pretty decent ding on my port gunnel due to loading and off loading my cooler. After chipping off all the cracked gel coat i felt under the gunnel and the fiberglass seemed to have a "bubble" and apparently I hit it just right with the cooler to create the problem. Here are pics of the repair... all taken with the iPhone so not the best pic resolution...... now it's on to the front and fix some of my battle scares from my awesome boating skills!!!

Here's what I started with


Mixed 1/2 the the kit at lunched and applied....


After wet sanding and before using the Dremel with some polishing compound!! Looks pretty decent for a rookie!

[CairoTrout]

Nice!

[KyTrkyHntr]

Thanks, I've got to wet sand some more to blend it a little better and the polish the crap out of it...

[silverking]

Wax on, wax off, grasshopper. It gets better the more you do it. Ask me how I know this...

[KyTrkyHntr]

Wax on, wax off, grasshopper. It gets better the more you do it. Ask me how I know this...

[hmaadd29]

That's nice Tim.

[Chalk]

[Flint River Pirate]

Looks great Tim!