I am not a fan of painting the engine bilge area, Line-X Ultra spray bedliner looks and works amazing in the engine bilge and gives it a great non slip easy to clean surface and it reduces noise and makes the fiberglass much stronger. It also fills in screw holes without a problem. The last time I used a light gray color and it is available in white.
@SailingRoam Line-X was also used on the Pentagon after 9-11 and on the Ministry of Defense in London. Coating the exterior of block walls makes them blast resistant. It was also used to coat the armor plates worn by troops in their ballistic vests.
Tools are a great religious discussion 😂 We’re a Makita boat. I also have a ton of Porter Cable tools. That water in the sail drive collar. Would after drying it be worth it to put expanding foam in there?
We try not to be religious about tool brands but keeping it all in the same family is necessary for battery powered. I’m not sure what we need to do around the sail drive collar. Don’t like having a place for water to collect that I can’t see or drain but I don’t think I can fill with foam without drilling quite a few more holes. I’ll have to do more digging and see if I can get a bore scope in there to see what I’m working with.
That’s my concern as well. I plan to sand the hull all the way around and inspect for holes or cracks but, I think if there were any, the water would have leaked back out while we were on the hard as I didn’t get into this until we’d been high and dry for few months.
Yikes! Geri, your perseverance sanding is admirable! That looked very tough!
I have to admit I was VERY ready to do something else…anything else!
I am not a fan of painting the engine bilge area, Line-X Ultra spray bedliner looks and works amazing in the engine bilge and gives it a great non slip easy to clean surface and it reduces noise and makes the fiberglass much stronger. It also fills in screw holes without a problem. The last time I used a light gray color and it is available in white.
Thanks for the suggestion! We’ll check it out.
@SailingRoam Line-X was also used on the Pentagon after 9-11 and on the Ministry of Defense in London. Coating the exterior of block walls makes them blast resistant. It was also used to coat the armor plates worn by troops in their ballistic vests.
Tools are a great religious discussion 😂 We’re a Makita boat. I also have a ton of Porter Cable tools.
That water in the sail drive collar. Would after drying it be worth it to put expanding foam in there?
We try not to be religious about tool brands but keeping it all in the same family is necessary for battery powered.
I’m not sure what we need to do around the sail drive collar. Don’t like having a place for water to collect that I can’t see or drain but I don’t think I can fill with foam without drilling quite a few more holes. I’ll have to do more digging and see if I can get a bore scope in there to see what I’m working with.
Could that water be coming from somewhere else
That’s my concern as well. I plan to sand the hull all the way around and inspect for holes or cracks but, I think if there were any, the water would have leaked back out while we were on the hard as I didn’t get into this until we’d been high and dry for few months.