Repairing Old Fiberglass Screw Holes In a Classic Boston Whaler Montauk - Part 7

In this video I go over how to repair old screw holes on a fiberglass boat. This Classic Boston Whaler Montauk came to me completely stripped down so I honestly had no idea in what condition the original screw holes were in. With that in mind, I go ahead and repair all of them (the ones facing downward).
A key element of the repair is coring out an area underneath the deck so that the epoxy resin can expand, in effect providing a solid platform for attaching items to the deck. One thing I do different foam others here is to use a bent nail rather than an Allen wrench to core out some foam. When the time comes to add rails, the leaning post z-legs, etc, I'll re-drill the holes in the epoxy filler.
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00:00 Introduction
01:26 Preparing the Screw Holes for Repair
02:21 Bent Nail Alternative to Allen Wrench
03:22 2nd Method to prepare a screw hole for repair
05:32 Vacuuming out the screw holes
05:53 Preparing the Epoxy Resin and Dye
07:23 Using a Syringe and Catheter to fill in Screw Holes
10:00 Topping off the Repairs with Epoxy
10:43 A Recommended Sequence to Follow
12:59 Recap and More Tips
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[@bdixon1]

man I am so glad I found this channel. Just bought an '84 Montauk 17 that's in good shape but has a lot of holes that weren't properly fixed... so glad to have found this man

[@ExtremeDIYGuy]

Welcome aboard! 👋

[@TotalBoat]

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing your tips and tricks!

[@ExtremeDIYGuy]

My pleasure!

[@spinfish1434]

Looking forward to seeing the next episode!

[@ExtremeDIYGuy]

Me too! That will be the installing the console!

[@jorgejunco4907]

Thank you, great advice.

[@ExtremeDIYGuy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@fishingwithfilitsa]

Hello, great video

[@ExtremeDIYGuy]

Thanks!

[@arshiavali1597]

hello every one, could we just use and instant putty filler??

[@jasonsmith7809]

So if I'm gonna take the z-legs, console and rails off to refinish boat I should not re-use the same holes without filling them in completely first? Also would you still use epoxy if I'm gonna re-spray gel coat on the entire boat? Thanks!

[@ExtremeDIYGuy]

That depends on the condition of the holes. When I got the boat it was already disassembled, I assumed that they were all bad. If I had dissembled it, I would have made note of what holes were bad and repaired those. To be Honest, I think using the original holes as much as possible is preferable.

[@jasonsmith7809]

@@ExtremeDIYGuy Thanks Man!

[@ExtremeDIYGuy]

@@jasonsmith7809Your welcome! FOrgot to answer the second part. I think you should be fine with the epoxy if you use a high build primer first. Check with the folks at Jamestown D/Total Boat first. Their tech staff are pretty awesome!

[@michaelahlfeldt1490]

I can not find your next video of in stalling the console?

[@ExtremeDIYGuy]

Ill post a link here
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[@TimsWorkshopTJY]

Hi Jose, another informative video. My dad tried fixing a wooden transom on an old boat. It worked but looked like crap. At least he wasn't afraid of trying and watching him taught me how not to do it😂

[@ExtremeDIYGuy]

Lol, thanks for the compliment and hats off to your Dad!