This is THE BEST fiberglass repair instruction on the Web! He quickly explains the "Where", "Why", "What" and "How". His productions have vastly improved from his first videos....this is very well done and very helpful....thanks Boatworks guy!

Here's how I compare the two: Bondo: Not 100% waterproof, relatively low bonding strength to it's substrate, very short working time (1-2 minutes per batch) can only be mixed in small amounts and is more porous than epoxy. Epoxy w/410 Filler: It's 100% waterproof, very high bonding strength, working time can be up to 30+ minutes with the appropriate hardener allowing much larger batches to be mixed, gives a non-porous finish and is able to be used in lower air temperatures. Hope this helps!

@eyesyc

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely helps. These videos are great and thorough. Thanks

This guy needs a show on the DISCOVERY CHANNEL! I have just bought a Mahogany 60,s twin engine cruiser and she has ALL this to do! I think MANY of us owe this guy a beer each!

You're a true craftsman and a pleasure to watch. You have no idea what these videos mean to us DIYers. Many thanks

This is by far the best fiberglass repair video I have ever seen

I am taking so much notes. I am currently restauring the cutest 1964 fiberglass RV and this is so incredibly helpful. Not only all the steps, but the additional info about curing, heat, glass fibre... incredibly useful. Thank you so much! Love from Belgium.

I love this guy! He presents not only how, but why you do what you do to repair. Very good information and plus it's presented in a logical and understandable way. Thank you for this!

@anthonyrizzo8802

9 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@benstenson3578

4 жыл бұрын

You couldn't have said it any better

Andy I watched all your videos, purchased some West Systems 105 Fiberglass repair kit and fixed the halyard cleat and pulley that pulled out of the fiberglass deck of my 1979 Sunfish. Thank you for the instruction and confidence to do it myself.

Bob Ross of Fiberglass right there!

Andy, that is just what I need. 😀👍 I bought a Spirit 28 and it needs exactly every kind of fiberglas repair you explain, not many, but still a hole here and a spidercrack there. Your explanations are very detailed and easy to understand. Thank you 🏅🤗

I've had problems with permanent markers bleeding through the finished paint surface months after the finished job, even after washing with lacquer thinner and acetone, I only use pencil now and have never had any issues. Having to repaint a Multi- stage pearl white job was a good lesson on not using permanent markers!

Thanks for producing this training episode, you the man!

Thank you sir! Just venturing into the mold making/repair world and you do an excellent presentation! Godspeed!

Great video, it’s very informative and you explain it so well! A small tip for when you have tight rounded edges: at 17 min into the video you can make different sized sanding blocks by winding printing paper tightly in small tubes and tape it with duct tape. Make sure you use enough paper so that it is rigid enough to sand with. You can pre-make different sizes and add them to your tool box! Thanks again!

you are The Master. (and a great Teacher!)

thank you so much very informative I have been watching clip after clip for an entire day and only this one quenched my thirst for the information great work

this winter im going to be undertaking a small 14 foot runabout reno and all your advice is really helpful, thanks eh!

Excellent Video. Nice to see there are still people that actually know how to do something. Good job.

Great job on videos. I’ve picked up a boat for my son so we can do a project together he wanted his own boat an I know nothing about fiberglass. But now I think it’s something we can do. So thanks again from Louisiana. Keep it up buddy.

Your the best man I’m using all my acquired knowledge rebuilding my pilot house back wall and a side rail. A lot of work but satisfying when done.

Your content is seriously amazing.. you're super informative, and you make your videos entertaining to watch. I am astonished at how well these videos are made, and how much great info is in them.

Great video series! You're giving me tons of confidence (maybe too much), to tackle some soft deck spots on my 22' sailboat!

Very good videos, like the detailed information. I am restoring a thirty one year old bass boat and you are a big help! Keep up the good work...

Very informative, thank you for that. I was about to pay someone to do some minor repairs in my fiberglass but now I think I can do it myself!

yes, this guy is excellent. Very professional and clear.

I hit the jackpot motherload when I found your channel. OMG... Great content. Great teacher.... Thank you...

Hi Andy. This video has over 1 million views. Cant wait to see you at work in the new shop and back to the Bertram. You are a Legend 🙌

The next video is called Fiberglass Repair ~ Stress Cracks Also, If you go to my YT homepage and click on Playlists there will be a group of videos called Fiberglass Repair and Awlgrip Paint Project.. That will contain all the videos for that project.

Great demonstration. Many thanks for sharing your immense talent.

Love the detail! In talking with West Systems they promote the wedding cake vs inverse wedding cake style of glass layers. Their book also recommends that and what I saw you do was the inverted cake (smallest first, then next size, until the largest is last). From a shape perspective it makes sense but they said "because if you add one too many pieces you would have to grind into your largest piece which is the strongest"

@amoebaart

2 жыл бұрын

That is smart, but I think the approach also depends on the shape, position and size of the problem you are fixing.

Great vid! Now I feel a lot more confident to repair my boat for the first time! 😁

This guy is awesome. Great detail, easy to understand.....my go to guy for info.

Great video very well presented and awesome handy information, thank you!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience!

I love this video so much. THANK YOU.

I'd like to register a complaint, your videos are far to interesting and informative and I've learned too much today. ;-) Good stuff, I was actually looking for some tips on doing some small repairs on my Hobie 16 hulls and I can't believe all the useful info in your shows. Keep up the good work and thanks!

6:50 You can buy a chopped fiber that is compatible with epoxy. It uses a different bonder: powder and works as well with epoxy as polyester does with the chopped mat you have in this video.

As always a highly detailed, thoroughly explained repair video. As they say, the devil is in the details, and so many other sites tend to leave out what this fellow puts in. Excellent info delivered in a personable easily understood style. Five thumbs up!

Your information is as important as the epoxy-material itself.

Beautiful.....thanks for the vids .much better to watch resin set up then waiting for paint to dry

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing.

Love what you are doing! Keep up the great work!

High quality instructional video!

Thanks for your beautiful videos you teach as a lot. Greeting and big big warm thanks to you sire from Morocco the north of africa. I love the way that you present and the way that you try to make everyone understand simply. Thanks again and again

All right, thanks again for all of your help!

Good deal; the next vid is going to cover stress cracks and working with poly resin. Was hoping to have it up today, but looks like it will be closer to the end of the week (warm weather has forced my Spring rush a month early getting boats ready to launch; busy busy...) It will be up very soon :-) Thanks for the comment!

You are the only person I can watch on youtube how to videos that I am with you through the whole thing! Love your videos. Sooo helpful.

Thank you for this great video! Very detailed!!!

Thank yous for sharing.... Very informative guidelines for the day. And tutorials on what you prefer on different types of damages. Like your painting and filling strokes. Hello tree... Appreciate your time and effort plus teaching someone that may pass it on one day to there kids or grandkids,or friend

it is a masterpiece video about fiberglass repair ever seen... well done!

Explained so well, takes the wystery and aprehensions out or attempting DIY

Yep, this is the one I've been waiting for. Thanks.

More than likely they are just minor stress cracks which are fairly common; yes they will most likely print through the new bottom paint. A quick Q: are the cracks somewhat grouped in a pattern or randomly scattered throughout the hull? I'd tap the areas lightly with a hammer to see if there is a sound difference. Let me know what you find out :-)

You made such a great video! Thank you.

You are a great inspiration brother. Appreciate it

Absolute legend!

Great video Andy such as great presentation as always

Nice seeing someone doing it right!!

Nice work .Thanks William

Thanks Louis! I think you just made my day :-)

Thank you for your videos ! They have helped me alot !

@SebastianDeBeer Hmmm. I think you'd still need to have some type of coating over the flow coat for UV protection. Paint would be my first choice, if you would be using a polyester based product for the top coat (gelcoat), then the repairs would need to be done with polyester resin and glass rather than epoxy as shown in the video. I used epoxy only because I knew I was going to be painting. Thanks for the comment!

Brilliant mate ! Thanks 👏👏👏

Thanks @Timulator :-) My reasoning for going with epoxy / paint boils down to time (which directly effects customer cost). Doing these types of repairs in gelcoat adds a significant amount of finishing time. Key word here is REPAIR.. When building something new and being able to use molds for the non-skid and shape, poly resin and gelcoat are much more economical. But when repairing something and blending into existing surfaces not so much; there's a tradeoff between material cost and time.

Great fun presentation most excellent style and extremely informative/helpful. Many thanks well done! From over the pond UK. :)

Thanks for putting together all these videos. I bought your Ebook as well.

:-) Depending on location, yes! Feel free to post a pic or two on my Facebook page and I'll be able to give more detail...

Exactly what I need to know as I need it. Thanks.

You're very good on conveying great video my friend keep up the good work we all appreciate you

Excellent presentation, maybe I can take on that hole in my RV now!

Very helpful, I am repairing molds used to pour concrete umbrella anchors. Thanks!

Excellent communicator!

@boatworkstoday Thanks - will do. Going down to the boat tomorrow so will take some photos the. Cheers Sebastian

Thank you, Video is awsome learned a lot just with this video, I'll be watching more videos, Started a boat project, and let me tell you I don't know what the he'll I'm doing, Watched a lot of videos about boat stringers and transom, boat I got has no transom or stringers, Transom no problem to measure but I don't know how or what to do with the stringers meaning to measure them, the top part of the bass boat has built in compartments and live Wells, so I don't know how high I put the stringers since I took the top part off, Sorry I went a Lil crazy, Thank you for the video

I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!

Great find with this channel!

Great informative video. Thank you!

Thank you for this video. I have to repair several holes in my 1979 high top for my Dodge van where the old vents where.

Great! Really great videos, I've really enjoyed them.

Super informative. Thanks so much for sharing this awesome video

Something that size you'll need to remove parts of the interior for access; I would not recommend patching something that big from one side only.. Just remove the damage and grind back your tapers. It would be helpful to use a thin plastic board or ply sealed with plastic to press against the hull to maintain shape for the first couple layers of glass. Once the shape is established you can then move onto laying up the bulk of the material and final fairing. Any repair area needs to be dry

I haven't but it's pretty straight forward. Just make sure to have everything planned out, be prepared to work very fast as the foam starts to expand very quickly and don't do large pours in enclosed cavities. A few small pours are better than 1 large pour :-)

Thank you so much for all of this information Andy, it's helping me get my 1963 Sears Runabout back to life. Whoever is disliking your videos needs a swift kick in their junk.

If you're looking to re-tap the hole, personally I would drill the hole out slightly oversized, fill with thickened epoxy and let it cure. Re-drill the proper sized hole for the screw and insert :-) Having the new screw surrounded with epoxy will also help prevent future possible issues with water absorption into the core..

Very informative and well presented. I'm finding a lot of useful information in your videos for repairing a 17ft. Fibreglass/gelcoat Boler trailer. Thank you for posting. I have subscribed. Very good job.

;-) Let me know if you have any Q's! Good luck

I agree. Very informative and expertly done. You ought to put on a show on PBS called this old boat. YOur that good!

Great video man,I used to do the same thing on brand new trailer's at glendale, I used work in the finishing dep..you do great work and well explained in the vid's. I needed A refresher been a while and I'm going to start making and you can lol scale canoe's,I also used to own a 28' fiberforme with fly bridge,I needed to fix a few hole's..... thank you for tip's and help I needed

Thank you!

You are the best!

Nice job thanks for all the videos

Great advice!!

Great video! I am Patrick Cunningham, NTL Sales MGR for CASS POLYMERS INC, the maker of the ADTECH P-14. We proud of our entire polyester line and we also make all the products that you demonstrated with the epoxy products. Our general purpose epoxy is called PROBUILD. We offer four different hardeners depending on how much working time that you want. Our polyesters are the best on the market, least moisture absorption, easy sanding. Thanks!

Excellent videos

Thanks Bill! Good luck with your projects :-)

Your name is now the boat master, your so good at this I now think I can do it..and I'm gonna try

very informative. great job!

great instruction - thanks!

Hey Joseph, if the repair spots are below the waterline and not requiring gelcoat then I would just use thickened epoxy. I am doing a blister repair / prevention video now that should be of some help. I'll have that video ready sometime in Sept :-) BTW, surprised the marina does not allow sanding outside; never heard of that. Usually as long as there are tarps on the ground and a curtain hanging down from the hull to contain dust that should be good.. May want to look into that a bit more.

This is a voice from the future Andy. You didn't age at all!