How To Repair Boat Keel Fiberglass

Hismosa

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• #4

Hopefully you knew nearly that beforehand, looks pretty nasty

plj46

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• #5

From what the motion-picture show shows information technology doesn't await like structural harm.I would notwithstanding patch information technology up though.

• #7

That's not too bad. Looks like it removed the gelcoat and is at the offset or second mattting and not past the roven.. Repairing information technology to new requires a lot of feathering and layers. It could be fixed and painted quickly and then addressed next wintertime. Hitting up pescaloco(Marking) for a professional stance.

wils

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• #8

What did the surveyor take to say about it?

wils

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• #10

Said it looked pretty typical of Florida boats where they run the boat on the embankment but the owner said information technology was from putting the gunkhole on the trailer.

check the roller on the trailer. repair to the boat will be the same, but if it IS from the trailer, you demand to fix it.

• #12

As to how to repair, I would clean the area three to 6 inches on each side of the gouge before I did any repair. I would use Acetone and lots of rags and proper safety gear. Go as much of the wax as possible off before any sanding. There is wax from the mold process years later that will touch adhesion

Then grind or sand smoothen and feathered out. Saturate with epoxy, when its tacky simply not hardened upwards yet, apply thickened epoxy. To make full holes and build back to shape
Use structural filler, not a fairing filler. You can fair information technology off later.

Give it some time to cure and really harden upward then you tin sand and use fairing filler if needed, then I would just spray pigment, it's the underside of a line-fishing gunkhole.

Note that if you want to use gel coat, my repair won't work as gel glaze and epoxy dont stick.

jayyyy

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• #16

Looks like it was caused by a poorly adjusted trailer, I would fix the trailer beginning. That's not a difficult set but glassing overhead your first time fiberglassing will be a claiming.

Every bit mentioned you lot'll need to grind or sand through the gelcoat a few inches on either side of the keel then drinking glass, 5" record of lite weight woven glass or chopped strand mat will practice.

If just the outer layer of mat is worn off you could get away with filling in building upwards and sanding to conform after applying Marine-Tex epoxy putty.

• #17

Call Bob Blesser....really cool guy, great work, and doesn't interruption the bank. Only downside is he gets really busy as he works on one boat at a time. He'southward in Bay Park...

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MATTANZA

old man of the sea, in training.

• #19

vinylester structural putty, reshape information technology , and then regelcoat it.

• #21

If you experience like tackling this yourself or with an extra hand I probably have the necessary materials on my sailboat and I have a little fleck of experience with them. I'm in La Mesa as well...feel complimentary to shoot me a PM if interested.

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