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| This is the 30th year of this hull on the water, flowages, rivers, rocky shore lunches, night fishing etc. Now that the rest of my boat is refinished I want to redo all the scratches, gouges and chips in the glass and gel.
I'm here to tell you when I crawl under there I have a lot of work to do, but at the same time smile, remembering about half of them and how I go them! At least I can smile about them now.
Here is my challenge; I've become quite proficient with West Marine epoxy and glass work, but now I will be working overhead with a boat on the trailer.
Here is my question: Has anyone done this? How or is there a way to easily get the boat off the trailer and up in the air at a working height?
I have chips from the outside from hitting rocks and stumps and other floating or shallow things, bad wear from the keel running over things, sand, rocks, being dragged up on shore, I have punctures from, I'm embarrassed to say, but screw holes from the inside out that I did while redoing the inside of the boat.
Here is what it will require: I need to clean it down good, sand and grind the bad spots out to get rid of the bad material so I have good material to glass and epoxy to, which means I will be laying on my back in the driveway sanding or using a Dremel tool overhead. Someone suggested I simply back it up onto car ramps to get the height, which may be the simplest idea, but I'm open to other ideas.
Let me know your thoughts.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Since it's the running bottom, I'd do area repair on the bad spots and call it good. A keel guard will fix the worn keel, no point in doing little repairs there and then covering them with a keel guard. Any holes from the inside should be fixed from the inside, but if not possible, stuff the hole full of glass fiber soaked in resin and push it into shape, sand, and then put a dab of gel coat on a piece of clear packing tape and squeegee it out, let it kick, sand and buff. Gel coat chips repair the same way, tape repairs are the standard.
Back it up on a set of ramps. Lock it down well, don't want to have it take off on you. Missed your call the other day, was up at Baudette with the Pay It Forward Veterans group. |
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| Steve,
Thanks, I appreciate it. It gave me some pretty good ideas, as well as confirmed some ideas.
I'm out at ICAST working, but getting some ideas as well.
Hope you have a good ICAST.
Kevin |
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