Hail Yeah back under the knife

[DonV]

Looks nice, is it the grey color?? That's the color I used on my gunnels. Stuff works well....especially after you get the hang of rolling it on. Good luck!

[BA17]

It is grey and looked awesome. However, I learned a couple more lessons with the Kiwi.
1. Don't try to rush the project so you can get back on the water
2. Read the instructions

We had a tournament this past weekend and were really pushing to get the boat ready to fish. We got the boat fishable and entered. It was great to get the boat back on the water and we caught some fish. We even eeked out a top 20 finish out of 196 boats. Now time to pay for rushing.







Not sure what went wrong with the kiwi. We put it down on Thursday and fished sunday. Also, I think we used to fine of sandpaper on the floor. Going back to the drawing board on the Kiwi.

The one thing that I did not like about the kiwigrip is that it was "slick". There was plenty of non skid but when it was wet you would slip on it. Has anyone else had this problem or did we completely screw the pooch on the installation?

The boat really performed much better with the weight of the fuel tanks moved forward. I had the delusional dream that we may pick up some speed with all the repairs and weight we removed from the boat, but it was just a dream. I ran it wide open with about 30 gallons of fuel and saw 40 knots.

Please give me some feedback on the Kiwigrip.
Thanks,
BA

[Old'sCool]

Nice King!

[CoreyTrx]

How fine of sandpaper did you use? I've never seen anything like that and I've used it on a bunch of boats. I've use 180 grit with no problems and I think even 320. That should have been enough time for it harden unless it was really thick. If you used a whole gallon on just the floor it must have been pretty thick. I did a whole floor and cap with 2/3's a gallon. So with it being thick it probably needed a lot longer to cure. Also if its humid it can add some time to the cure. I've never seen any peel off.

[BA17]

I don't think it was too thick? We used 320 sandpaper. I just picked the boat back up from the shop and now the floor looks like this all over the place.

[BA17]

It's been raining all day so the floor has been wet.

[FishStretcher]

Nevermind. Was thinking kiwi grip was a urethane. Doesn't seem to be?

[dave s]

I used a similar product called TuffKote and it looked great dry, but was slippery once wet and with fish slime. Tended to always look dirty too.
Also edges tended to peel at bit with scrub down, so removed it all and went with extra coarse grit and AwlGrip- works great and cleans up well.