Recommend glass repairer - Broke the bowsprit
Submitted by gruntre69 on Sun, 2017-06-11 08:21
Yesterday I had the anchor jam and while driving towards it and winching up some rope a larger than normal wave overloaded the bowsprit and it cracked and pinged one of the studs off the bow rail mount. It has probably taken a bit too much load from the anchor winch on too many ocassions.
Anyway long story short, I'm looking for recommendations on good glass repair business North of river. I can and probably will repair/strengthen this myself to save costs but I will probably need help with the gel coat. I want an exact colour match and the finished product to look OEM.
Any recommendations appreciated.
____________________________________________________________________________
Marine trimmer NOR (available for clears, tops, carpet, upholstery, custom equipment covers)
Image Upload:
z00m
Posts: 1086
Date Joined: 10/05/14
West Coast Boat Works
Give Brett a call at West Coast Boat Works. They do a good job.
Stevo81
Posts: 1278
Date Joined: 16/04/12
Yep, west coast boatworks or
Yep, west coast boatworks or Greg at GT fibreglass
•••••••• Electrical Contractor NOR ••••••••
Rob H
Posts: 5797
Date Joined: 18/01/12
Cruise craft...Ive often
Cruise craft...
Ive often looked at mine also and thought it could be designed stronger
A point to note also though, is that freeing up anchor that way can have disasterous unexpected consequences.
If you have a plastic toy boat from your kids, float it and push down on the bow.
Stability disapears rapidly as the bow goes down and stern up, usually from a sudden swell and it will roll very suddenly
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
gruntre69
Posts: 533
Date Joined: 15/10/16
Yes, its part of my learning
Yes, its part of my learning curve. I think I need to get younger crew who can run to the bow and quickly change the anchor from plow to pick
. It's frustrating when anchoring on sand and rock alternately. The plow works in both but is prone to jamming in rock.
I'm going to look at setting up some mounting options on the bow rail that can accomodate the plow and pick so that there is less excuse for not dropping the correct anchor..
I will be laying quite a bit more glass underneath this time, it would be much easier to do this in advance than to have to repair all the layers and gel coat.
Might be worth thinking about for cruise craft owners using winches...
Marine trimmer NOR (available for clears, tops, carpet, upholstery, custom equipment covers)
dodgy
Posts: 4577
Date Joined: 01/02/10
Tidal marine. Nick does an
Tidal marine. Nick does an awesome job.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
biggerfish
Posts: 669
Date Joined: 02/03/09
Plough anchor
best way to get a plough anchor out on sand or rock is to drive over the anchor with a little slack line. Then winch the shackle will run to the front of the anchor and lift it out from front rather from pulling from the back. Hope that makes sence.
Play hard fish harder
JimmyG
Posts: 74
Date Joined: 31/03/13
I agree with the guys above.
I agree with the guys above. ....Brett from West Coast Boat Works is good.