Gelcoat repair or those damn furry tailed rats...

DarthBaiter

DarthBaiter

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So a few seasons ago, I took off my boat cover, early in the season, to buff the hull. Left it uncovered for a few weeks. Came back and notices that f'n squirrels had chewed up some of my gelcoat by the euro transom splashwell. WTF
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Finally got around to fixing it up in the fall.

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This was my console cooler seat that everyone loves to slam shut...
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Almost done

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They both need a little buffing in the spring. ?
 
DarthBaiter said:
So a few seasons ago, I took off my boat cover, early in the season, to buff the hull. Left it uncovered for a few weeks. Came back and notices that f'n squirrels had chewed up some of my gelcoat by the euro transom splashwell. WTF
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Finally got around to fixing it up in the fall.

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This was my console cooler seat that everyone loves to slam shut...
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Almost done

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They both need a little buffing in the spring. ?
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Nice work(y)
 
Both squirrel, and rat feces are dark brown or black. However, there is a slight difference between the feces of the two pests in shape. Rat droppings are spindle-shaped. Squirrel feces may also be spindle-shaped or they may appear clumped, depending primarily on the moisture content of their food source.
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Here's one reason why you don't wanna breed em...

"You have to keep baby squirrels warm and massage their genitals to make them pee. At three weeks, they start developing teeth. At four weeks, they open their eyes."

Uhmmm no thanks. :D
 
I did get a couple of nice lures back a couple of decades from Mepps. And it took a while for South Matzohpizza to replace its bushy tailed rat population !
 
It was Evercoat gelcoat. The white matched my 20year old gelcoat almost perfectly, I did add a pin head amount of yellow to about 5oz to make it look very very close to the original
Tell him not to do it in the cold and use the colors sparingly to match the color.
 
Thanks! But, "him" who? I do all my own work, LOL! Was it a kit with some sort of filler putty or just gelcoat, as obviously you had to do some repair work prior to the application of your gelcoat.
 
It's just polyeaster gelcoat with some color pigments and MEK hardner.

Amazon.com : Evercoat 100668 Gelcoat Repair Kit- 4 fl. oz. : Boating Painting Supplies : Sports & Outdoors

Amazon.com : Evercoat 100668 Gelcoat Repair Kit- 4 fl. oz. : Boating Painting Supplies : Sports & Outdoors
www.amazon.com

If it's more than gelcoat damage you need to repair, I would use polyresin or vinyl resin to fix it. You could use epoxy resin but then you have to deal with amine blush which makes the gelcoat hard to adhere to the epoxy resin repair.

Post a picture of the damage.
 
First year I had my new boat I was casting eels, at nite among a boulder field on the North Fork & put a deep scrape in the gelcoat below the water line. Hurt the new boat, a no fish nite, I wasn't happy. I used Evercoat on the damage & 5 years later it's still holding up, & the color is still true.
John
 
I can’t post a pic now, because she’s all shrinked up in my side yard. The story is that my hauler did me a favor and got me out just before that last snow storm. When I got to the ramp it was gusting over 45 kts. As I came alongside the floater a huge gust of wind caught the stern, and swept it across the ramp before I could react with the throttle and helm - and slammed my stern into the bulkheading across the narrow ramp entrance. Nice crack in the rear corner of the swim platform. Sometimes it sux to be me.

I’ll get some pix up in Match.
 

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