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Gel Coat or Epoxy for Repair?
- Thread starter GladMax
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Been a bit, have fires needing held back and have another canoe to use. If it were the fishing canoe that were down this repair'd happen'd sooner, but as is I can use fishing canoe for sport but not sport canoe for fishing. I'll document what I'm doing for sake of later lurkers, and if there's time to stop me before I screw up on this holiday weekend: please jump in.
I got a fracture repair kit, a scratch repair kit, and a stem bumper kit from Northstar. Doing it essentially all at once.
Fracture repair kit says sand a scoop into laminate 1in around fracture, then roughen 3in around that. If fracture is below waterline the boat needs three layers of 'glass, above water line only needs two, each successive layer is 2in bigger than one underneath.
I found a few other pale spots in interior that don't show broken weave, I decided to put a single layer on each of those.
I taped off the areas I intended to sand. Were targets to aim for with paper in hand, showed true borders if sanding obscured specific location of actual injury, and also provides a pattern for the 'glass.
I got a fracture repair kit, a scratch repair kit, and a stem bumper kit from Northstar. Doing it essentially all at once.
Fracture repair kit says sand a scoop into laminate 1in around fracture, then roughen 3in around that. If fracture is below waterline the boat needs three layers of 'glass, above water line only needs two, each successive layer is 2in bigger than one underneath.
I found a few other pale spots in interior that don't show broken weave, I decided to put a single layer on each of those.
I taped off the areas I intended to sand. Were targets to aim for with paper in hand, showed true borders if sanding obscured specific location of actual injury, and also provides a pattern for the 'glass.
