Here's the repair fresh out of the vacuum bag. It looks nice and clean from the pictures, but its still not "fair" with the rest of the hull. The Kevlar patch came out nice though.
The same repair with some more microballons and polyester on it. It got gooped on and then sanded back several times. The kevlar started to fray and had to be buried in filler.
With the primer on it was much easier to see how smoothly the repair would blend with the rest of the hull. This also makes the final paint come out much more cleanly, even when using canned touchup paint.
And heres the final fix. With such a big area and paint that I knew was not a match, it wasnt worth trying to blend. And it looked much cleaner to take the paint around the whole hull, rather than stopping it at the keel.
It came out pretty well, some rippling over the repair. But the boat will float!
Here's the repair fresh out of the vacuum bag. It looks nice and clean from the pictures, but its still not "fair" with the rest of the hull. The Kevlar patch came out nice though.
The same repair with some more microballons and polyester on it. It got gooped on and then sanded back several times. The kevlar started to fray and had to be buried in filler.
With the primer on it was much easier to see how smoothly the repair would blend with the rest of the hull. This also makes the final paint come out much more cleanly, even when using canned touchup paint.
And heres the final fix. With such a big area and paint that I knew was not a match, it wasnt worth trying to blend. And it looked much cleaner to take the paint around the whole hull, rather than stopping it at the keel.
It came out pretty well, some rippling over the repair. But the boat will float!
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