Advice needed on repairing interior scuffs and scratches

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My boat is fitted out on the inside with panelling covered in a leather-like material. It looks like leather but I guess it's some kind of vinyl. It's soft to the touch and scuffs quite easily. Anyone know if there is a method for repairing such damage other than recovering the whole panel?
Similarly, the boat has high gloss cherrywood on the inside which has now got scratched in places. Is this a pro job to repair or is there a diy fill n' polish system that I can use myself?
 
Yikes. I've never found a good solution to the vinyl. Have always just recovered the whole panel using original factory supplied material. I suspect (though happy to be enlightened!) that's the only way to get a perfect result

The lacquer is usually 8 or so coats and pretty thick. So, for minor scratches, abrasive polish works fine. I mean "T Cut" genre stuff - I use the 3M fibreglass cutting paste but I imagine others work fine

I'm not aware of anything you can paint onto the lacquer. You'd have to get the whole panel replaced or resprayed to fix a bad ding, I think
 
Had a tear in my cockpit vinyl and used a kit supplied from here:

http://www.leatherrepairkits.com/repair_kit.shtml

It's a US company but ships using courier and has a good customer service. Important to match the colour right, but I am so pleased with the result. Cannot tell its been repaired unless you know its there and its in a prominent position. I use the liquid part of the kit to cover scuffs and scratches. Keeps the vinyl in great condition. No connection, just a very happy punter.
 
That's the kind of stuff /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Only problem is matching the colour
 
I had the same problem on my panels, when an engineer spilt some glue on it - to be honest the job of replacing it with new vinyl type stuff was cheaper than I thought and didnt take them long. It was a slightly lighter colour but it didnt notice.

I also tripped and spread a biro line down one of the panels, and I used (very carefully) some solvent quickly on and off, and that left a nice clean bit, which of course meant I had to do the rest, but it looked good.

Never got the small scratch out out of the cherry wood - although I was told it was relatively easy...

Martyn
 
I assume a French Polisher would do the wood, doesn't need to be marine specific, although I agree normal GRP polish is fine for slight scratches and dulling.
 
Thanks, Martyn but the trouble is, I've got little scuffs on a number of panels and some of the panels are quite large. The other problem is matching the existing material which is a sort of tan colour peculiar to Ferretti and I've already had a local specialist look at it, suck his teeth and say that he couldn't match it exactly. And the scuffs are not that prominent so it seems a bit unneccesary to replace the whole panel
 
Mike,

I recently decided to get rid of the scratches on the floor and steps in my galley / saloon and around the cherry wood trims and ended up getting someone in to rub it down where needed and re-varnish it.

Cost me about 800 squid, but good as new now!
 
Do ferretti not have a spare parts service mike? you'd think they do - I've bought vinyl and carpet etc from fairline spares, for example
 
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My boat is fitted out on the inside with panelling covered in a leather-like material. It looks like leather but I guess it's some kind of vinyl. It's soft to the touch and scuffs quite easily. Anyone know if there is a method for repairing such damage other than recovering the whole panel?
Similarly, the boat has high gloss cherrywood on the inside which has now got scratched in places. Is this a pro job to repair or is there a diy fill n' polish system that I can use myself?

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Ferretti work with Alcantara standard, or with a very leather like vynil if ordered
the way u mention it looks like you have Alcantara, for now I'd leave it how it is, when it gets worse I change the whole panels
 
Mike said "It looks like leather but I guess it's some kind of vinyl" so I very much doubt it is Alcantara. Alcantara feels more like suede
 
Supposedly yes, jfm, but in reality, no, at least for me. I have tried phoning them a couple of times for information and you get to speak to a sexy sounding Italian girl who tells you to send an e-mail and then, zilch, despite reminders. I do know that they will do a refit at the factory on older boats but my boat is way off needing a refit and I guess the cost will be astronomical
 
poweryacht, Alcantara was/is an option on my boat but in fact I have the standard leather like vinyl on mine. Yes, you are right, I should leave it until it gets worse and replace the whole panel but I was looking for a simple temporary repair
 
Yikes, that's worrying. Much as I like ferrettis that kinda moves them off my shopping list. If you're gonna keep a boat a few years you must have access to factory spares. I gotta say Fairline (handled by heather at essexboatyards) are excellent at this - I've ordered loads of spares over the years, for stuff that I can't get from original manufacturers, and the supply has been excellent always
 
um, dunno bout the leathery vinyl, but the cherrywood is normally fillable with warm-up wax crayon-type sticks. All you're dong tho is dropping the lighter-colour obviousness of the scratch, making it a bit darker and the eye doesn't pick it up so much. Wear sunglasses indoors?
 
To be fair, I wasn't asking for spares but asking whether they could confirm the original prop size fitted to my boat. At the very least they should have replied to my e-mail with a polite fob off but they didn't bother to do that even. Still, there are plenty of satisfied owners so I guess they must do something right
 
Yup, that's the kind of thing I'm after. What exactly is a warm up wax crayon stick?
 
"warm up wax crayon stick" sold in hardware stores (especially the old sort with blokes/Ronnie Barker in long brown coats) as repairs for scratched domestic furniture. Maybe in B+Q these days too, I dunno. They're kinda like brown Crayola crayons
 
Re prop size, have you checked the case of manuals that come with the boat? In mine there are two certificates for the props issued by Teignbridge, stating the exact size/spec and a sign off from the Teignbridge operative who balanced them and signed them off
 
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