Search results for query: gelcoat repair

Ok so I've made a couple of fiberglass repairs to an old goldenglass Sawyer Cruiser. How long should I let the patches cure before I can paint over them, I used epoxy for the repairs??? Never worked on gelcoat boats before.

I know the subject of gelcoat repair has been covered elsewhere on these forums, but a good video tutorial may help those considering tackling this kind of repair. Many minor cracks/scratches on gelcoat can be easily fixed at home with the proper tools. I recently helped my friends at Nova Craft...

...does a skid plate kit add? It has some old repairs, and one spot needs a repair (white fiber showing); how challenging is this? A gelcoat repair kit from Wenonah is included with the sale of the boat. I am still working on developing a paddling style; I am a relative novice with canoes. I...

Hello, new user and new canoe enthusiast here. Yesterday I bought a second hand fibreglass canoe. My aim is to take out my wife and son on short day trips on tranquil waters for a bit of a paddle. The rest of the time the canoe will be stored at my house under a roof (dry). I'll start by...

I now carry some epoxy putty to fix hull punctures. When an alligator punctured and sunk my outrigger canoe in the middle of a lake in Florida, I tried to repair the punctures on a mid-lake duck hunting platform with emergency duct tape I had wrapped, years before, around my amas. Half the tape...

I have some of that 2-part epoxy that comes loaded in a large double syringe in the spares and repairs kit, but I have high quality duct tape in a number of places. A friend cracked the bottom of a glass boat on a badly executed speedbump log maneuver. We pulled his boat ashore, dried it off...

I repaired the gelcoat on my Tuff Stuff Supernova today. I managed to scrape some off to the fabric in a few spots on my San Juan trip. The repair went good, I'm getting fairly handy with gelcoat :- ) But I notice I have a couple very shallow dents and a crease in my hull. It doesnt feel like...

I have a Bell Northstar blackgold canoe that is now about 19 years old. It is starting to show its age with stress cracks from being dropped on portages, etc. Is there information and advice available on repairing these cracks? The gelcoat is clear, and I really don't want to paint the canoe...

If you want it to come out nice you could get an actual gelcoat repair kit from Wenonah or another canoe manufacturer. It's a little more expensive than the things you listed above, but they send it with everything you need including gloves, sandpaper of various grades, buffing compound and...

Hello, so I have a 1970's old town canoe that is my fathers, it's truly a heavy beast that has seen quite a bit, and it has a few gouges in the gelcoat on the keel. (photo below) I'm not too experienced in canoe repairs and I really don't want to fuss around with nasty chemicals for hours and...

Red, you can buy colored gelcoat for the repairs. The color match might not be perfect. Check with Fiberglast. I've never patched gelcoat, but you'll probably have to spread it in the blemishes and then tape plastic over it to smooth it out. I imagine some sanding will be in order too. Any place...

10 years of heavy use and my Kevlar canoe is looking rather ragged, then this past weekend I went on a group trip down the Black River in MB with a guy from work. Their way of travelling is much different than mine. They brought heavy canoes packed with heavy gear and avoided taking them out of...

The design of the Monarch rudder control arms is problematic. I have hooked one of those stainless steel arms where the cables attach trying to slip through the narrow S-turn opening of an old impoundment gate. Since the rudder is 7 feet behind the seat it is kinda hard to see what’s going on...

Hi gang, been busy like hell, life, work, hurricane Irrma and trying to get this dang canoe built in time for watertribe ec challenge in a few weeks now and haven't been posting or lurking much, here or anywhere else. Didn't quite get to where I needed to be by EC registration deadline though...

First of all, hello...my name is Evan. I live in Waterloo, IA. This is my first post here, but I've been digging around on this forum for a few days looking for a solution to my problem. It seems this site is filled with a lot of knowledgeable and passionate people, so I made the jump and got an...

If the gelcoat damage is not too extensive there are gelcoat repair kits available. This is one I have used with reasonably good results: http://www.jamestowndistributors.com...FYsRHwodU8EFEw You probably won't get an exact color match with the included red pigment but it will likely be as...

Here are pictures of the repaired Wildfire. I vigorously hand sanded the woodwork and used three coats of a wipe-on varnish, which should offer more UV protection to the G/flex epoxy than oil. I cleaned the interior and exterior with acetone and Penetrol. Penetrol masks gelcoat oxidation, until...

So in my interdiction I had said I was going to start agel-coat repair project on my Lincoln Explorer canoe. I called Lincoln and theygave me the part/color number for the gel-coat and told me that I could get itat any marine store. OK maybe in Maine you have a marine parts shop on everyblock...

After the better part of a year looking on the used market for just the right solo canoe, I opted to purchase new rather than wait for an uncertain future time I might happen upon one. Buying local is my preference, but my local dealer was not able to get me in the canoe to demo it. Searching...

Yes, I did. And Jeanne Bourquin presented a "Building and Repairing Wood/Canvas Canoes" seminar. Jeannie teaches building at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, MN.Her own shop is in Ely. She built her first wood/canvas canoe with Jerry Stelmok and is a member of WCHA. I'll be straight...