Some thoughts on Hull Damage

[evantful]

Hi everyone.

About a week ago out on the Hudson River I struck a 2x4 in the river floating just on the surface, it was about 3ft long.

The boat is a 2000 Cobalt 206

I got the boat back on the trailer and sure enough there was some damage on one of the edges of a Starboard chine.

The damage is about 1 1/2 -2 inches long, about 1/2inch wide, maybe 1/8-1/6 of an inch deep

The damage got through the gelcoat, and it looks like some of the resin behind it. It doesn't look like fiberglass (But I'm unsure). I poked around with a screw drivers and definitely no full penetration.

Ive done gelcoat repair before and Bondo work

Im just trying to collect some various opinions, I know its through pictures but any thoughts would be great

 

[GT1000000]

If the damage definitely did not go all the way through the hull, you should be able to mix up a little bit of thickened resin to fill in the really low spots, then use a gel coat repair kit to over fill the areas a little, sand and buff...
Since gel coat is basically a polyester based product, you might be able to get away with adding some micro balloons to the gel and just fill the entire damaged areas with that...
You could even get gel that is already a paste...
http://www.iboats.com/Boat-Parts-Ac...eywords.gel coat repair--session_id.280271983

 

[Woodonglass]

Yup, based on those pics, I'd clean with acetone, use a Dremel to grind em out, then fill with gelcoat paste. Sand em smooth all the way to 1000 grit and get back on the water.

 

[Axkiker]

Doesnt really look like what I thought the damage from a 2x4 would have caused... None the less I agree. Grind it out, apply your gel paste, then sand and buff. Pretty easy 2 hr job at the most.