Uncle Braddah
07-24-2007, 06:41 PM
I have a 30 foot mahogany stripped single hull. It was built by a William Seals in Canada. The mahogany strips are about 1 inch square. It had a layer of glass put over it before it ever touched the water. I had a leak on what I call the Rudder keel, which is a smaller keel like plank that holds the rudder, seperate from the fin keel. As i started stripping away to find the leak the job began to unfold quite larger than I had hoped. Ive exposed some bare wood. My plan now is to,(which I have done) sand down to the glass, removing all paint. Coat her with an epoxy resin, rolled on and mixed with a 10 % acetone to soak up into the wood. then I will fill any cracks with a epoxy and aerocel peanut butter. Then I will apply a full lenghth of Nytex wetted with epoxy resin. then after fairing her down a frosting of Epoxy rsin/aerocel. then a coat of Corlar epoxy paint and then bottom paint. Any thoughts? Anybody know how to get fiberglass off and out of your skin after sanding.