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Old 05-22-2005, 12:09 PM
optiguy optiguy is offline
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Default Re: O.K. you f/g experts, I need some help.

Billybob;
I have been watching this thread with great interest. You have been given some good advice in general but the one thing that seems to be missing is the root cause of the problem. In all my years of boat building and repair we would allways try to discover the cause and extent of the damage before making a plan for repair. Blindly slapping a layer of glass on a delaminated section of hull may or maynot fix the problem. Unfortunately your pictures are not quite good enough to really make an educated guess but what they might show is 2 possible causes of your problem. One is that at some time in your boats history it sustained a severe impact in the area of the damage and caused what is known as interlaminate shear. Which is a delamination of the glass layers. And second ( please don't flame me for this) poor lamination from the builder. If what I see in the pictures is the glass looking very dry and whiteish on the strake then one of these is most likely the cause of your problem. If it was me doing this job the first thing I would do is try to get the area preped back to a solid laminate and then you will really know the size and extent of your work ahead.
Bill
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