hull blisters

Fill with hull coloer gelcoat. No bottom paint ever.

Ok no bottom paint. I was not fond of the idea myself. Mark when you mention gelcoat do you have a particular product in mind? I have watched a few YouTube videos on blisters and came away depressed. I am not ready to strip the hull, however I have not seen the hull cleaned yet. I am hoping not to see too many. Have any of you experienced this.

You need to open the blisters up and let them dry they say you need desert heat for a couple of days but a heat lamp will work. Then you need to fill with a epoxy let dry and then gelcoat

I know from my bigger boat that the blisters are going have to be opened up and let dry and treated with something or they will come back gelcoat want keep the blisters from coming back. Normally blisters come from the boat sitting in the water for prolonged times

Can you thicken gel coat, like resin with microballons, or something similar, without affecting its final polishing to get it to fill the chips without running?

Well we'll see what kind of a mess I can make this weekend filling holes, as long as the weather cooperates. We'll also see how well I matched the gel using a stock color. I'm trying the V100 chip, its a lot closer in real life than in the picture.

Just to keep people up on colr matching, the V100 from fibreglast is still to light to match the Taffy ivory, as is the X122 just below it on the same card (half of it is visible to the left of V100 in the image above). The X122 is closer, and actually looks good until you sand it down and buff it out, and then it becomes noticable. Probably good enough for areas on the bottom of the hull but its noticable on the deck. Now I'm trying to darken it up with a little bit of brown tint, my first attempt of adding one tiny drop of brown to 4 Oz of X122 was close, but still not good enough for me.