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Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 16th, 2012, 5:26 pm
by 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.

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 16th, 2012, 5:34 pm
by Chalk
2006 post...it's alive...it's alive :lol: :lol:

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 16th, 2012, 5:53 pm
by KyTrkyHntr
Chalk wrote:2006 post...it's alive...it's alive :lol: :lol:
:smt005

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 16th, 2012, 10:48 pm
by Flint River Pirate
Wow,that's an old post.

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 25th, 2012, 7:45 pm
by 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!!! :-D

Here's what I started with
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Mixed 1/2 the the kit at lunched and applied....
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After wet sanding and before using the Dremel with some polishing compound!! Looks pretty decent for a rookie!
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Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 25th, 2012, 8:31 pm
by CairoTrout
Nice!

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 25th, 2012, 8:42 pm
by KyTrkyHntr
Thanks, I've got to wet sand some more to blend it a little better and the polish the crap out of it...

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 25th, 2012, 9:07 pm
by silverking
Wax on, wax off, grasshopper. It gets better the more you do it. Ask me how I know this... :lol:

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 25th, 2012, 9:12 pm
by KyTrkyHntr
silverking wrote:Wax on, wax off, grasshopper. It gets better the more you do it. Ask me how I know this... :lol:

:thumbup: :thumbup: :-D

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 25th, 2012, 10:35 pm
by hmaadd29
That's nice Tim.

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 26th, 2012, 9:57 pm
by Chalk
:thumbup: :thumbup:

Re: HULL REPAIR

Posted: April 27th, 2012, 7:46 am
by Flint River Pirate
Looks great Tim!