[Scott]

WOW....That had to hurt!!!!

Marc... personally what I would do is get some backing in those holes (thin plywood) and build it up from there. That WEST system book has alot of good info for what your about to do.

Clean everything up and feather out those edges. Cut the plywood backing to fit inside the hole and use some resin/epoxy to hold the ply backing in place (this will act as a support/backing for your glass work so as you build the glass up from the outside it doesnt "push through" to the inside of the boat). Once that’s dry I would start layering glass to build your hull back to its original shape. Once you get many layers of glass in there, I would then sand it out and fill any imperfections with epoxy and cabosil…. Then fair the area smooth. I hope thats clear!!

As for putting epoxy into those voids....I personally wouldn’t do it .... you'll need alot of epoxy first off and there was nothing there to begin with….and secondly when the epoxy is taking up that size void and you have a high volume of epoxy and its that thick, deep or whatever you want to call it .... when it starts flash off and cure there is a huge exothermic reaction (I've melted many poly mixing buckets and had smoke come out of one [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] )..... and I dont know how good that much heat would be for the rest of the boat in that area...

Good luck with the repair work…. good thing you found it before you had real trouble!!!

[ June 25, 2002, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Scott ]