Dings and Dents

Installment 38 of 19ft Mako Restoration

We're primed to restore the inboard sides where the fishboxes used to live. Before we close those sides up though, we mused over aft cleats. Always dangerous to start thinking midway through. "Hmmm...how's that gonna work when we can't reach em? Not very well now is it." Altered plan, let's prep for cleat install before we close up those sides.

In the meantime, we took a walk around the boat. There's a mess of minor crash damage dirtily repaired with 5200. Looks like heck. Time to pull out the grinder and make some patches.


We experimented with MAS resin thickened with cab-o-sil. Some light 6 oz cloth for strength over the small spots.





Scraps of Quadraxial cloth cut to size made excellent patches over larger damage.



Where damage was extensive, we tabbed the topside liner to the hull.




Once this stuff is cured, we'll skim over these areas with filler to even the surface.

Transom tie-in

Our gunnel to transom repair required a little more tweaking. We ground a smooth transition from new to old, and layered some 6 oz cloth to fair the dip with a bit of strength.









While we were at it, we prepped the sides for bonding. The RAS Rotary sander with 24 grit quickly extended the bevel a good 5 inches. These sides are shaping up!