Bowrider V repair

[alpentolic]

I took on this '89 Bowrider 200 and have been slowly fixing the little issues. Next up is a pritty nasty little scrape at the bottom of the hull, right below the drain hole. It looks like it was backed into something. No other hull damage.

Would it be best to reshape that lost V with some marine putty and glass over then gelcoat? or can I carve it in a little bit and fill with straight resin?

I used to shoot automotive paint on the side so know my way around bondo and paint guns. I have some large needle paint guns capable of passing gel coat. Just not sure what the tried and true method is, everything I've seen has been for filling isolated chips, not reshaping.

Even though it's only about 3" long. Thanks much.

 

[Lazy Daze]

I guess it depends on how nice you want the repair to look in the end. There's no structural damage there so this is all cosmetic. You'll need to remove the garboard drain since you'll have to grind away some more of the gelcoat. Honestly, you could get away with just tinting the epoxy and just coating it a few times with the epoxy resin after removing any loose areas of gelcoat. You may need to build up the area around the garboard drain a little so it sits as close to flush as possible - it won't take much - I think some thickened epoxy resin should do it, or certainly some marine filler will be fine.

Yes, you could get into re-shaping and gelcoating - but know that it's still only for cosmetic purposes. There will be no loss of performance by not shaping the repair (even if you leave it as is).

On the other hand, if this is a trailer boat - you "could" leave it as is.