Surf Bort Repair Thread

Thanks Holmes!

 

Yeah it's Epoxy, I always use the Ultra Clear Ding All Repair kit.

 

She rides like it never happened, so glad I finished it in time for yesterday's session!

 

Started my next project. I'm going to a repair lots of dings and delams on my 6'10" WRV FunFish. I'll post a pic later. It has more damage than I recall, but it gives me something to do, and I'm beginning to enjoy the work, which is calming to me. Is that weird?

 

Lol Yeah dude, it's getting more enjoyable the better I get. It's addicting once I put the sand paper in motion.

Right on dude, looking forward to the pics.

 

Here's what has been nicknamed "The Blue Bomber". The deck isn't in too bad of shape other than little dents all over.

This bort is a poly hand shaped by Mike Daniel. Very fragile compared to the Coils. I've had this one for about 12 years I think? The bottom is in terrible shape, I did a couple ding repairs very sloppy about 10 years ago using a poly Ding All repair kit. I used way too much cloth, didn't sand it properly, and now that i'm getting the hang of this i'm going to clean it up along with the various little holes I have already sanded up for repair.

I think what happened is it was sitting in sand and someone sat or stood on it and the shells punctured it. There are some soft delam spots that I will probably have to cut open and fill with Q-Cell resin and then close it back up and put a layer of cloth over and sand down. Or something like that lol.

Also there is is cracking along the swallow tail so I'll be wrapping those rails with cloth most likely, make sure it's completely water tight and get her back out there. I'm not going for perfection as it's an old bort and will be using epoxy on a poly bort after using poly the 1st time and hated it.

 

1st coat on all the little puncture wounds is about dry, there was 8 of em I believe, and then I also tried cleaning up the two disastrous repairs from 10 years ago by sanding down and putting an epoxy hot coat over the initial poly repair. Should be completely dry this afternoon and ready for sanding. Still got lots of work to do.

 

Making progress...

 

Next step is to fix this swallow tail.

 

I used epoxy Suncure to fill the hole, dried in 5-10 minutes, then I sanded down some to prep for wrapping the rails on the tail with cloth and a coat of resin. Maybe tonight or tomorrow.

 

I'll see what I can do, I think I know what you mean. Thanks!

 

Awesome man, I appreciate it. This will be a little tricky but I think I can make it happen.