| The first boat that I have ever owned. It is a | | | | is called west systems 404. It is a little expensive, |
| 1979 Hobie cat 16. When I bought it, I didn't really | | | | but afterwords, it was rock hard. I highly |
| expect to be totally redoing the entire boat, but it | | | | recommend going this rout. |
| did have a lot of dents and scratches that where | | | | Well, after all of the body work was done, I went |
| pretty deep. So I decided to just sand those | | | | down to the local body shop, and went paint |
| down, and fill them in as best as I could, but it | | | | shopping. Wile I was there, I talked to a lot of |
| ended up just taking off from there. | | | | people, and asked a lot of questions. Finally landing |
| After filling in all the scratches, I had to do | | | | on a paint, I decided to go with a single stage |
| something about the soft spots. There where | | | | paint. It is called U-tech 3.8. This paint was super |
| two pretty big soft spots that I had to worry | | | | easy to mix, and spray. It also is suppose to hold |
| about and after a few weeks of fretting over it, | | | | up really well over seasons of use. So, it turned |
| and asking everyone I knew about it, they told | | | | out pretty well looking if you ask me. |
| me the best thing was to cut out an inspection | | | | All in all I think I spent around 3 months doing the |
| hole. I didn't really want to start slicing up my | | | | body work, from start to finish. Just a few hours |
| boat, so I decided to do a little more research on | | | | almost every day. Also I think I ended up |
| the internet, and actually my dad found the | | | | spending around $800 in materials, and paint. It is |
| perfect solution. What happens when you get soft | | | | a lot of work, but worth the results if you want a |
| spots is the fiberglass starts to separate. This is | | | | pretty nice looking, and sailing boat. But you really |
| called de-lamination. To fix this, you can drill small | | | | need to plan out what you are going to do, and |
| holes half way into the fiberglass. Then you inject | | | | how much you want to spend, then double it! It |
| it with some resin. The thing that seems to work | | | | was a lot of work, but well worth it in the end! |