Here's your free boat, just make sure to come back and see me when you need a bigger fix.
Here's your free boat, just make sure to come back and see me when you need a bigger fix.
Pete Gossett wrote:Robbie wrote: What about removing the plastic and then throwing a coat of THICK latex paint on there?Flex-Seal
Setting aside Phil Swift's general douchieness for a moment, this seems to be an ideal solution...
Another idea could be to vinyl wrap the hull or that section.
Enyar wrote: Fiberglassing the whole boat sounds like a nightmare. Maybe fiberglass a patch over the crack but thats it. I would tape it all to hell and then sail the heck out of it until it sank.
it's a foam boat.. it will NEVER sink unless you decide to fill it with cement to help build Margie's new dock
RX Reven' wrote:Pete Gossett wrote:Setting aside Phil Swift's general douchieness for a moment, this seems to be an ideal solution...Robbie wrote: What about removing the plastic and then throwing a coat of THICK latex paint on there?Flex-Seal
Turns out flex seal doesn't like UV (clear anyway) I used it and it broke down very quickly.
mad_machine wrote:Enyar wrote: Fiberglassing the whole boat sounds like a nightmare. Maybe fiberglass a patch over the crack but thats it. I would tape it all to hell and then sail the heck out of it until it sank.it's a foam boat.. it will NEVER sink unless you decide to fill it with cement to help build Margie's new dock
Won't ever sink, but it may cease to be useful as a boat when it decides to break in two...
Started to cut a new transom plate out of some plywood I found in my basement. Also took all the plastic off the hull. I need to epoxy some holes up, but it's actually in decent shape.
As for the sail...
Think this is too far gone to go crazy with sail tape? I'm thinking I should probably just buy a new one. I just don't want to spend the $$$
try rolling your own?
try these people out
mad_machine wrote: try these people out polytarp sails
More expensive than the ones I've found new (And I don't really want to build my own)
I'd tape it - the tape is cheap right? I'm no sailor (but I did get the small boat sailing merit badge), but at some point who cares?
The sail will move the boat just fine. May not win any races, but again, that is not why you have this boat.
What about something like rubber cement? Can you just get some 80s-tastic nylon windbreaker from salvation army and rubber cement pieces of it to the sail to mend it? I'm thinking like an inner tube patch. (Maybe that is exactly what the tape does).
Tape is $10 to $25, depending on what you get (and I'm not sure what I should be looking at with that). Honestly though, this thing is so threadbare that I think it will just end up tearing somewhere else again until the whole thing is just sail tape.
New sail specifically for this boat is $125 shipped.
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