Need advice: Hull repair on 1995 Bayliner

[jeffrho]

Second day of vacation, second day out on the water for the season. Hit a floating object while crusing the lake trying to burn off some old gas. Whatever was hit ended up knocking off some gelcoat about 6" long, running stern to bow, and about 1" up the transom. Any suggestions for how to repair this? See attached pictures.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Need advice: Hull repair on 1995 Bayliner

Welcome to iboats!

Wow that was quite a hit

When are you going to repair it right? Are you still enjoying a vaca? If you are on vacation get some marine epoxy stick and smear a light coat on it to keep water intrusion minimum.

Otherwise it needs to be repaired with fiberglass and gel coat repair.

 

[jeffrho]

Re: Need advice: Hull repair on 1995 Bayliner

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm still on vacation, and wasn't planning to do any repairs until we were home. Is the marine epoxy something that would typically be carried at a boat store? Any specific type\kind that I should ask for?

 

[chargerboy]

Re: Need advice: Hull repair on 1995 Bayliner

West Marine is arguably the best, and most widely carried.

 

[Woodonglass]

Re: Need advice: Hull repair on 1995 Bayliner

That is a nasty gouge


Marine Tex, PC-11 are two names of products that would work. HD and Lowe's even carry resin, hardener and some mat that would get you by until you got home.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Need advice: Hull repair on 1995 Bayliner

I would just seal it up with bondo marine epoxy stick for now. It can be applied under water or wet. http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/show_product.do?pid=6146&BASE Similar products are in hardware stores.

It will have to be ground out later for the proper repair.