Resin for keel.

I need to pour about 2 ltrs of resin into my encapsulated keel to fill a void in the bilge. This is not a repair but just to prevent bilge water getting in and festering. Strength is unimportant.
I would guess that all polyesters would be too gloopy and envisage using epoxy. The more runny the better. I am pretty sure I will be pouring it in one shot.
The questions are:
Has anyone done a similar thing?
Can you reccommend a suitable, very runny, resin?
Bet it got 'ot - did you reduce the amount of hardener?

Hi Doug,
Just sending you a PM.
George
 
+1

We use hot pitch to fill voids usually around stem planking and king planks on wooden boats and it works extremely well.

The big plus side is that you can remove it without too much bother if required, which you will have mega difficulty doing if you use epoxy or polyester.

Very much cheaper too.

+1+1 combined with a cofferdam to retain it exactly where needed. Been there done that !
 
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