Another Swift Rowing Boat Repair

The local rowing club had an incident whilst towing their boat resulting in a large pair of splits right through the hull, about 1.5m long. The hull had distorted around the damage.

Filler card showing the severity of the damage

 I had to cut the deck off to get to the inside and key up the areas to be repaired.

 The outside was sanded right back to the core material either side of the splits. Once the inside was glassed up the lid was bonded back on.

 Work began on glassing the outside with layers of very fine glass cloth and epoxy that were eventually feathered into the original skin. This was then covered in a very thin screed of epoxy filler, faired, primed and painted.

 The bow was badly chipped and looked pretty rough so that was tidied up and received a coat of black paint to smarten it up. The last thing to do was flat and polish the white paint and apply some black cove line tape to the deck/hull joint.