Please critique my 23' CC Rebuild plans

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Originally Posted by take a potter

Where did you find vinyl ester in 55 gal drums? I have search in my area and can't even find gallons.

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I got my VE drum a long time ago from a local from a boat builder, He was building a hard top for a sportfisher and ended up with more drums than he needed. I got it on a discount. It was a low viscosity VE infusion resin as he was infusing the hardtop but I have really liked the thin resins for fast wet out. Matter of fact that's about all I will buy now are thinner viscosities when it comes to resins even epoxy. What I had was an AOC product but there are a lot of different types out there. I have gotten other types from local boat builders, Sometimes if you show up with a few clean buckets they will sell you whatever you want out of their drums or either order you one. Price around as there was a new repair shop that opened local to me and I priced a drum of general poly from them and they wanted an arm and a leg. Some shops will look out for you and sell at their price and some will mark it up 30%. I would check with some local boat builders local to you or open a commercial account with an distributer that will deliver. A drum will easily meet minimum order requirements or cost normally.


The VE resin came from Composites One which distributes all over the US, most local builders to me use them for all kinds of marine supplies as they carry lots of stuff


https://www.compositesone.com/people/about/locations/


I buy my epoxy from US composites and they also have VE resin. They will sell in kits from 1 gallon up to 5 gallons.


http://www.uscomposites.com/polyesters.html


You probably wont find VE local on a shelf (I wouldn't want some old resin that has been sitting on a shelf awhile no how) but you should be able to order it from a lot of locations.