Hi, I just purchased a 24 year old fiberglass canoe for cheap. I have
repaired two holes with west systems epoxy and plan to paint with
interlux brightsides linear polyurethane. My prob is as I started to
sand one of the holes I repaired with the orbital sander, there has
appeared several other star shaped cracks in the gelcoat. There is a
bit of flex in the canoe hull where these showed up. Do I have to
grind them out and epoxy or will the poly paint act as a sufficiant
coating for calm river and lakd use? Thanks

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George Reily wrote:
Hi, I just purchased a 24 year old fiberglass canoe for cheap. I have
repaired two holes with west systems epoxy and plan to paint with
interlux brightsides linear polyurethane. My prob is as I started to
sand one of the holes I repaired with the orbital sander, there has
appeared several other star shaped cracks in the gelcoat. There is a
bit of flex in the canoe hull where these showed up. Do I have to
grind them out and epoxy or will the poly paint act as a sufficiant
coating for calm river and lakd use? Thanks

See my comments in the kayak hull repair thread.

Thanks

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:25:31 GMT, Brian Nystrom
wrote:

George Reily wrote:
Hi, I just purchased a 24 year old fiberglass canoe for cheap. I have
repaired two holes with west systems epoxy and plan to paint with
interlux brightsides linear polyurethane. My prob is as I started to
sand one of the holes I repaired with the orbital sander, there has
appeared several other star shaped cracks in the gelcoat. There is a
bit of flex in the canoe hull where these showed up. Do I have to
grind them out and epoxy or will the poly paint act as a sufficiant
coating for calm river and lakd use? Thanks

See my comments in the kayak hull repair thread.


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