THEFERMANATOR
God
Well I got reminded why I DIDN'T want a fiberglass boat. When I took the boat out a little over a month ago, I ran across a rock bar trying to get back to a beach to let my son out to play. It initially looked like I got lucky and only hit the prop and a little of the skeg, so I replaced the prop and took it out Monday. When I got home I noticed a chunk of gel coat hanging loose, looked underneath, and seen my worst fears. I gouged up about a 2 foot section of the gel coat, with about a 4 inch section down into the glass. So I have spent all afternoon sanding out the old gel coat to bevel it back to accept a new coat, cleaning up the glass, and recoating it. It would have helped if I could have found some ge coat paste because of the depth of the gouging, but all I could get was gel coat finish. So 3 coats later, I'm now ready to sand it out flat, and hopefully finish sand it. The other catch was they were out of brown AND yellow tinting, so I now have a nice WHITE section on my hull bottom. I figured it was better to have a white section, than to allow it to wear into the fiberglass. Days like today make me remember why I LIKED having an aluminum jon boat, it just scratched up the bottom and kept going, not 6 hours of fiberglass and gel work to fix.
