minor hull repair

just curious about a small touch up job on the under side of my nautique. there are 2 or 3 fairly deep scratches that i was told to use bondo to fill in. will this work or is there a better solution. they are not deep enough to leak water.

Find a local or nearby fiberglass shop. they can get pretty close on matching to color. I priced a gelcoat repair kit a couple of months ago and the smallest kit was 100 bucks after you give them a color to match it to. You still have to do the work. A local shop here patched and repaired 3 different places on my boat for 75 bucks.

If it's a new boat, yes, get the kit so it will be matched more closely. It it's an older boat like mine, take it and let someone else do it.

yeh Pete, you did suggest a Minicraft kit. But let someone who does this everyday for $75 is a lot less than me ordering a kit and doing it myself for $100. And with the damage on the bottom side of an 81SN, the $75 option here worked better for me.

thanks for all of the insight. ive actually looked into several gel coat repair kits but since the problem areas are on the bottom i wasn't really planning on putting a whole lot into it. there is a scratch from one of the runners on the trailer and the other is up towards the bow i guess from beaching. just wasn't sure if there were any tricks that turned out decent as alternatives.