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Author:  drummer63 [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:32 am ]
Post subject:  keel wear and damage? Help/advice Needed
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I flipped my new to me hobie over to check out the bottoms and this is what I see. To my untrained eye it looks like the keels have been reinforced. There are no soft areas, so I was thinking about simply adding some resin to the edges where there is cracking.

Any thoughts on this would be v much appreciated especially if there is a consensus that there is a problem with this. The boat is a 1990
Author:  MBounds [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: keel wear and damage? Help/advice Needed
It's a bottom job going bad.

Yeah, you can brush some resin on the edges and it'll look OK for a while. Until it cracks again. Which probably won't be long.

Or, you can take a disk sander, knock off the loose, old bottom job and re-do it right. It's a weekend job if the weather's decent. If you're really good with fiberglass, you can do it in a day - including shooting it with gel.
Author:  drummer63 [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: keel wear and damage? Help/advice Needed
Thanks Mbounds :) I am terrible with glass work - will put some resin in for now and then get the bottoms done right later this year.
Author:  drummer63 [ Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: keel wear and damage? Help/advice Needed
Does anyone know of a good aticle that will show me how to redo this bottom job and do it right?
Author:  MBounds [ Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: keel wear and damage? Help/advice Needed
The "This Old Hobie" article in the Sept/Oct 2008 HCA HOTLINE magazine, found here: http://www.w1dm.com/projects/HOTLINE/Hotline.html

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