gell coat repairers

[milling around]

Can anyone recommend a trusted professional gell coat repairer as my mates 625 tournament fell off the trailer.

Located in sydney

Oh just a reminder dont lend your boat...

[Divey]

Why not have a go and do it yourself. Is it only the gelcoat that is damaged or has the fibreglass been damaged as well?

I have just (last week) started doing a few little gelcoat repairs myself. If you know a nice friendly Smash Repairer he can assist you with tinting the gelcoat. All depends if the Smash Repairer has the latest and greatest paint colour matching system. He can photograph a section of the boat (I used a small rope locker lid) to assist to match the colour. They can also use a colour card system. I bought a small 250 ml tin from Whitworths ($12.95) and we tinted it as though it was 250 two-pack white base used for cars. As we were matching a white gelcoat there was not much tinter to be used. Anyway, we found that the pigment in the white gelcoat is no where near as dense as the car paint and the colour was much darker than we expected. I went and bought another 250ml tin and tinted it as though it was a 50ml tint and the colour is just about perfect.

I used very small scales and measured out 5mls of the gelcoat and added only 3 drops of the catalyst. You get about ten minutes to play with it before it gels off.

After is sets hard, you can sand it down with wet and dry sand paper to a smooth finish and then finish it off with a good quality rubbing compound. Remember, gelcoat is quite thick unlike car paint and you can sand till you hearts content.

Hope this helps.