Bottom Repair Thought

4 October 2011 Using picks and paint scrappers we removed all the loose gel coat. As the pictures show a lot came off but there's still a lot of gel coat remaining. The yard is proposing to remove the gel coat mechanically. Unfortunately the shaving process will also take off as much as an 1/8" of fiberglass. This is a technique common in the repair of blistered bottoms. Since there are no blisters on Nellie, removing fiberglass is drastic and unwarranted. I continue to believe the best course of action is to let the gel coat fall off by itself. We could paint epoxy on the areas devoid of gel coat.




After the bottom is cleaned and the loose gel coat removed.


Nellie is doing a good job with the orca impersonation.