After seriously considering sending the boat to the dump, i began the tedious task of fixing what i screwed up. Its been weeks now. I started by grinding all the bubbles out, down to core. I have been going thru in sections doing 10-15 small repairs at a time and replacing the layup in the low spots, and vacuum bagging the repairs. The bag pulls the materials very very flat and even into the low spots made by the grinder. Ill come thru with a second round of repairs to fill low spots in with 10oz glass patches, then come thru and sand the whole works flat with a longboard. A bit of fairing to cover low spots, and she will be ready for another layer of cover glass to make it look like i didnt frankenstein the side of my boat and to add a little more structure. More glass cant hurt right..., but ill pull the hull layup first. Its getting really cold real fast and i need to get this glass job done on the next nice day. Heres some pics
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A failed vacuum bag yields lits of voids...yikes
So i grind all the ones in the core out. Gotta look worse before it can look better. Noe i start tracing patches to replace my layup. 12oz biax on the bottom, 5oz poly in the middle, 10oz glass on top.
Glass all the patches in sections and use the vacuum bag to smoosh it all down. Result is nice repairs with little to no high spots. Awesome. Low spots will get another round of glass patches, and some cabosil filler to level em off. Then a new sheet of 10oz cover glass.
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