shorefun
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This is my son's 88 Sunfish. It had a bashed area on the bow. While it is too cold to do repair work, I did grind it back to see what I had.
The course roving is still good. I was just going to lay glass over the roving and then gel coat. The guy at the club who did glass work for a living thinks I would need to remove the trim and put a backer in before laying on top. My guess is that a bunch of layers of alternating cloth and mat will create a strong bow with the original roving giving the backing strength.
I was surprised with how thick the gel coat is on the nose point. I guess that makes sense as glass likely can not make such a point. Even off the sides the gel coat was fairly thick.
This hull is about 25 lbs heavy. I do not want to make the holes in it and I was thinking of making a duct system and a small 12v fan to push air from the bow out the rear. Not sure how well that will work, but I have a few months.
The course roving is still good. I was just going to lay glass over the roving and then gel coat. The guy at the club who did glass work for a living thinks I would need to remove the trim and put a backer in before laying on top. My guess is that a bunch of layers of alternating cloth and mat will create a strong bow with the original roving giving the backing strength.
I was surprised with how thick the gel coat is on the nose point. I guess that makes sense as glass likely can not make such a point. Even off the sides the gel coat was fairly thick.
This hull is about 25 lbs heavy. I do not want to make the holes in it and I was thinking of making a duct system and a small 12v fan to push air from the bow out the rear. Not sure how well that will work, but I have a few months.