Small Hull repair

[captain647]

While removing some rotten wooden floor on my Maxum bowrider, my circular saw cut through a small section of the hull. The cut is only the width of the blade (2-3mm) and is about 2" long. I've patched it from the inside, using 5 layers of glass fibre matting in slightly increasing size, and gel coat repair resin on the outside, pushed well into the slit and feathered into the surrounding area. Should that be an adequate watertight solution? The boat is only used on rivers and next year will spend about 6 months in the water and 6 out.

 

[galeus]

Sounds like you've done a very good repair and I can't see how it won't be watertight.

 

[Balbas]

I'm no expert, but if you've repaired it from the outside so that water can't get into the laminate, and you've repaired it from the inside as well, I would argue that you've done a good job. I'd probably be happy with that and just keep a weather eye on it.

 

[William_H]

Repair should be very adequate. However it would have been better had you opened up the hole to give a resin/glass connection outer patch to inner patch thus bonding the 2 together so they can not fall out even if bonding to original GRP is bad. ol'will