Frank Acampora
Supreme Mariner
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- Jan 19, 2007
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Here are a couple of photos of a GT 150 that I bought last year. I looked under it while on the trailer and knew I would need to do some glass work on the bottom
The P.O. did a sloppy job with resin -- drips and runs. The glass was not correctly wet out and peels out of the resin bed. AND--he did not sand the gel coat. The resin sticks just enough to make my life miserable. But, What can you expect from a fellow who used NO stainless fasteners inside?
Right now, the sad part is that this sloppy work appears to have been repairs to gelcoat only. So far I have not found any structural cracks.
Where the trailer says Just Add Water I needed to cut 2 feet off the tongue. If you look closely you can see the the back is broken and a shoddy welding job held it together, but just barely. There was not enough metal left to do a good repair. Thankfully, the tongue was long enough that the boat still fit on the trailer.
More photos to come as work progresses--slowly though
The P.O. did a sloppy job with resin -- drips and runs. The glass was not correctly wet out and peels out of the resin bed. AND--he did not sand the gel coat. The resin sticks just enough to make my life miserable. But, What can you expect from a fellow who used NO stainless fasteners inside?
Right now, the sad part is that this sloppy work appears to have been repairs to gelcoat only. So far I have not found any structural cracks.
Where the trailer says Just Add Water I needed to cut 2 feet off the tongue. If you look closely you can see the the back is broken and a shoddy welding job held it together, but just barely. There was not enough metal left to do a good repair. Thankfully, the tongue was long enough that the boat still fit on the trailer.
More photos to come as work progresses--slowly though
