[C320-list] Evercoat One Step Finish Gel-Kote vs. Interlux Brightside

[Chris Burti]

Dave,
Yes it was about quarter size... but I have done similar repairs up to
about 6 inches in diameter/square...bigger than that, and  it becomes
easier to simply make a mold out of silicon and feather the joint with a
rasp. The material is easy to work after it has kicked, but hasn't yet
hardened.

Fair Winds,
Chris Burti
Commitment #867
Farmville, NC


On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 12:06 PM Dave Hupe <hoopdtwo at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Chris-
> I am not sure about your post.  Did you roughly replicate the diamond
> pattern within your repair area with your rasp/file?  Was this area small
> so that such an approach worked?
> Thanks,Dave Hupe1994 (#32)
>
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>
>   On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:34 AM, Chris Burti<clburti at gmail.com>
> wrote:   I did exactly what Dave recommended and was able to get a perfect
> color
> match on the first try. I was repairing a void that had broken through in
> the non-skid. I taped off the area I was working on and used the edge of a
> flat rasp to cut out the non-skid diamonds before the gelocat fully
> hardened and then smoothed them out with 1000 grit wet /dry on a sanding
> block after it had fully hardened.
>
> Fair Winds,
> Chris Burti
> Commitment #867
> Farmville, NC
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:06 PM Dave Hupe <hoopdtwo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I would suggest instead trying to use white finish gelcoat from West
> > Marine and try to blend your own color using black tint to get a grey.
> You
> > can afford to waste a lot at that cost to get the color you want.
> > Dave Hupe1994 (#32)
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
> >
> >  On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 7:42 PM, Michael Leschisin<
> > mleschisin at imagestudios.com> wrote:  Has anyone found a direct color
> > match source for patching the gray non-skid gel coat? (Mine is 2004). I
> > have not found anything on the Catalina direct site, I checked with
> > Spectrum Color but their minimum order for it would be a full quart at
> > around $100 plus crazy shipping cost.  I have about four dime size nicks
> I
> > would like to take care of so I think it will take me 25 years to use a
> > full quart.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael Leschisin
> > Wild Blue Yonder
> > #995
> > Menominee, MI
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 9, 2021, at 9:47 AM, Timothy Woods <woodstimothya at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a 1996 and fixed all my Nick's with Spectrum color matching
> > gelcoat
> > > past. The color was really close and wasn't hard to work with.
> > >
> > > Tim
> > > Hull #375
> > >
> > >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, 11:53 AM Louis Spitz <aronella at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> My 1995 boat has multiple ‘dings’ that need to be refinished. Any
> > thoughts
> > >> on Evercoat Gel-Kote vs. Interlux Brightside, with & without primer
> > >> pre-kote?
> > >> Thanks in advance.
> > >> Lou Spitz
> > >> 1995 C320 Merry Chase
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >
>
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