Hi all
I just have a few questions about boat repairs and materials ect.
Firstley there is a slight hole in the seam around the front of my boat that can stay there but lets in a small amount of water, is it worth a patch or will a blob of somthing do the trick?
Secoundley the seat is begining to ware out the hull of the boat and so I want to patch it, so what material should i use and what resin, lastley, ware can I get it all?
Thanks for any help
James
Repairs
I recently used P40 fibre-glass resin from Halfords about £7 a small tin. Take a look at P38 too
http://www.halfords.com/webapp....ngId=-1
I'm sure somebody else can advise something else
http://www.halfords.com/webapp....ngId=-1
I'm sure somebody else can advise something else
What you need is some two part epoxy laying up resin, some kevlar seam tape, and some carbon/kevlar cloth. I have used CFS in the past, but they only stock kevlar tape in 50mm width which is a bit too wide.
Rob Holdway at Staffs and Stone used to sell narrow seam tape by the metre.
Rob Holdway at Staffs and Stone used to sell narrow seam tape by the metre.
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I use west systems epoxy. It is available from most ships chandlers. Narrow seam tape is available from Dave Radmore of cool blue canoes and he may do carbon/kevlar cloth too.
There used to be a quite good bit on the double dutch website about doing boat repairs.
I would not recomend using polyester resin(fastglass) unless your boat was made using this.Epoxy is fine no matter what your boat was made from.
There used to be a quite good bit on the double dutch website about doing boat repairs.
I would not recomend using polyester resin(fastglass) unless your boat was made using this.Epoxy is fine no matter what your boat was made from.
Alternatively, let a pro fix it for you. Dave Brown of Polo connections does repairs, a place in Barton Le Clay Bedfordshire and, of course, super helpful and very cost effective Jim Mac at Nomad who did such a great fix on my boat Can't do with getting all that shticky shtuff all over my fingers! Yucks!
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Peter Parker - 12 gate courses are plenty long enough!
We also do proffesional repairs, we stock all the resin and materials based in Yorkshire if that helps?
Cheers
Graeme
Cheers
Graeme
Paddle fast,,,Paddle safe Yorkshire Canoe Coaching
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