Small gelcoat scratches

[webcraft]

The horrible old Mobo on the mooring next to ours has been visiting and left a plethora of small scratches down the previously pristine and polished side of our hull.

The couple that are actually through the gelcoat will have to have a dab of filler I guess and be sanded down with the usual poxy looking result. Scratches that aren't right through the gelcoat however are while usnightly presumably relatively harmless. Can I polish them out with t-cut or something similar?

- Nick

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[Robin]

Isn't this a job for his insurance? I would want this repaired professionally, there are experts at this that will do the job much better than a quick amateur repair, though maybe you might want to do a temporary job to keep the water out until then.

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[webcraft]

Maybe I could claim off his insurance if I could prove it was his boat that had done it, otherwise it would just be a waste of time I suspect. Don't even know if he's insured. Didn't see it happen.

Our mooring was moved, and I noticed it was rather close to a little white buoy, then this ratty old mobo appeared on it. It's an all rope riser I believe, and the damn thing sails around on it wildly in a breeze. I told the moorings association I was unhappy about it, but nothing was done.

Anyway, off to arrange to move the boat off the mooring until we can get our mooring moved . . . at the moment I'm just glad worse damage wasn't done. One of these unfortunate situations where nothing gets done until it's too late.

- Nick



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[chappy]

I used farecla G3 rubbing compound on my scratches as recomended by a marine specialist, but if scatches are deep use a more abbrasive one, i think it is G6 or G 10 not sure, but it will tell you on the tin.
Mine come out a treat with the G3 but the scratches wern't deep.
Regards
Dave.

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[andyorr]

Farecla G3 is excellent as is 3M Fast cut followed by 3M Finesse then Ultra Marine wax. Best done with a proper electric polishing machine (like an angle grinder but very slow - 1800/2000rpm) I did the entire hull of my Moody31. Looks fantastic but my arms ached for a week! For deep scratches fill and fair off with wet and dry then the above system - or claim on your own insurance, get a pro to do it and hope for only a small rise in premiums!

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