There's A Hole In My Boat~ How To Apply Gelcoat

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[rickpat]

As an old first time boat owner, your videos have been a god send to me. As an ex trade teacher your delivery style is perfect for you and us, your students. Most critism comes from jealousy or lack of understanding of delivery styles and teaching theory. Keep it up people like you who do this type of public service are my heroes.

[jonathanking]

Glad you did these videos.
I really had absolutely no knowledge of how to repair my fiberglass body on my food truck. It has many little cracks and just needs to be repaired to look nice and make me money. The details you provided are so important to me. I will watch the videos again but will do my best to get it done myself because I cannot afford to hire out the repairs. I also have a semi truck with a fiberglass hood that needs repairs. I already did some repairs and it looks so much better. I really do thank you for helping those of us who are just getting starting. God bless you and your beautiful family. You said, jokingly that the information was gold, you laughed, but you were correct. It’s gold for people like me. I really do thank you.

[Fireship]

You are incredibly detailed and professional. Thanks for making these vids and giving people the confidence to attempt repairs to their boats. I'm learning lots of tips and tricks watching these informative videos!

[MRScrubNasty]

Your knowledge and experience is quite amazing but even more impressive your willing to share it (for FREE) on YouTube. I have been restoring boats and reselling them and learned SO much. With a background in working on fishing boats, we always pulled the boat out for repairs once a year and learned basic stuff but your my go to for everything I do on these restoration projects. Finally almost done with a 1977 mako 17 center console. Looks like a brand new boat. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I know you get paid for it from ad revenue but its free for me to watch and I appreciate that. Most guys are not willing to teach especially for free.

[adamusa]

I've been using the stuff with wax and not having good results. I'm going to get the laminating gel coat and the put on the sealer. Thanks. You're a natural teacher.

[ericsonsavannah]

All I can say is Thank You! I matched my gel coat color perfectly and applied to a larger repair via brush. The Bad news was it was at least 85 degrees. A bucket of ice did the trick I had at least 30 min working time to do what I had to do. I followed up the next week with sanding and its beautiful! I will add that I have been in color matching all my life and your method was the nuts. The color is perfect much better than the 2 part paint that was mixed using a high end color match Spectrophotometer. Again Thank you!
Dave

[matthewbaldwin]

Hi Andy. I stumbled across your youtube video while trying to find out how to deal with osmosis on a gel coat boat. I have absolutley no experience with painting or fibreglassing but just can't stop watching your videos. I am addicted. Love the way you present and I am so keen to see how your Bertram comes out. I literally stayed up until 1am the other night wathcing. I'll have to try and work out how to track your Bertram videos from start to finish, at the moment they seem to be randomly coming up anywhere in the process. Love your work. Matt from Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia

[andresaumure]

I was just given a boat that needs work. It is going to be a project with my son. Without your instructions we never would have been able to do this. Thank you very much.

[SailSmileReDo]

Well, first of all, congratulations on more than 113k subscribers. And having more than 417k views on this episode is quite an achievement. What makes me a bit sad is that out of almost half a million viewers only a tiny portion (2k) hit the thumbs up button. I absolutely agree with Patrick Fiddler's comment. Your ARE our hero. Thank You from the bottom of my heart

[michaelmcclure]

It's been a while since doing any repairs. This was a good refreshing course. 😊

[GenericUserUnknown]

Hey, thanks so much for doing these videos. Very kind of you to share all your hard earned experience and information with us. I wish the panel you were working on wasn't so over-exposed. As soon as you did the first lamination (coat), it looked as done as when you actually got done. I mean, I couldn't tell a difference. I think I got the idea, though. Thanks again for doing these great videos!

[LCJDNY]

Your the first person i turn to for all my fiberglass repair needs. Thank you for sharing your pearls of wisdom with us.. Much appreciated..

[peteryeung]

There's many boat repair tutorial videos on YouTube, but it takes a certain personality to make it right. This channel certainly feels and looks right. Good job and thank you! I subbed.

[azcharlie]

Thank you so much for the videos! I have learned so much from you. Thanks to you and Totalboat, doing fiberglass work is not so intimidating.

[drakep]

You have said to wait a hour in between coats of gelcoat. Do you make a new batch every with every coat adding mekP every time ? Thanks! You are really great and helpful.

[DJ-hyys]

Andy.. mabey someone else alreaady asked. but.. Just like others kinda asked If you use a gelcoat WITH wax would that be enough to seal without using PVA ?

[williampower]

Thanks so much for your kindness and wisdom. Much appreciated. Might see you in Dublin someday  for a beer. I'm buying

[kelvenguard]

I have 39 years Auto body "AWESOME VIDEO".... I was fixing some very small rock chips on a customers ski boat and I filled them with LORD FUSOR T21 Slow COMPOSITE ADHESIVE.... I let the T21 dry 24 hours sanded cleaned and brushed on Gel Coat, only the 2nd time ever using Gel Coat.... Where the T21 was thicker (All was super thin) the Gel Coat didn't Harden... Not sure if I had a Bad Chemical Reaction between the T21 and Gel Coat but thats what it looked like to me when sanding to re-repair....

[albertclark]

as a first timer i have found that seeing these videos have inspired me to have a go as i just put a hole in my boat so thank you

[Boatyarddog]

Bugs love it because it has styrene in it, smells sweet, they also want to walk around in your work!!