Saltydog, I was suggesting, and I think Wjejr was too, to simply fill the gouge with gelcoat, not gelcoat the whole deck. It’s a simple repair, but you do have the color matching issue.
If The deck is to be painted anyway, wouldn’t it be easier and possibly cheaper to use a filler other than gelcoat?Or you can just feather and lay in new gel coat. Then prep properly and paint the deck.
What the heck did that? Looks like the beginning stages of a Bob Ross…. possibly you could just paint a landscape in that area.
Well that was quite the experience… I always hesitate to loan my Sunfish out…An angry marina operator. Let my sister and brother in law take it out on a windy day in Currituck Sound (OBX). From previous experience I knew he couldn't sail except in calm/mild conditions but hard to say no to a sister. They flipped it over while coming about and could not right the boat. Marina sent a boat out with an angry operator (hard to blame him I suppose) and he just latched on to the bow handle and jerked it around. Where the two booms connect got jammed into the bow and scraped it up as you see. Mast must have been stuck in the shallow water (4-5') because it came back in two parts as well. But I'm a Bob Ross fan so you might have an idea there.