RE: Spider web cracks in gelcoat on hull

["Ralph Fuchs" <rfuchs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A product I used to repair some spider cracks on "Saucy Sally" is called
Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure (It's available from West Marine among
other places).  It's a very thin liquid which is supposed to flow into the
cracks to fill them.  It seems to fill in the cracks okay but I found that
it discolors somewhat so it's not an invisible repair.


Cheers,
Ralph Fuchs
Edmonton Alberta Canada


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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:49 PM
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Subject: Spider web cracks in gelcoat on hull


This fall when I hauled my boat and was cleaning off the hull I noticed a
lot of fine spider web like cracks in the gel coat of the forward hull. They
were of a pattern that looked like the hull had been flexing.  The only
thing I could think of was that the hull flexed when pounding the waves and
over time the gell coat cracked (the hull is at least 25 years old).  What
is a good way of fixing this short of grinding off the gel coat and
re-coating with epoxy?

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