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Repairs to Carbon/Kevlar kayak or canoe

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By kayaker123 - 6/29/2012 9:23:01 AM

Hi 
Please could you recommend a product for 

1. general patching of carbon or carbon/kevlar kayaks
2. applying a new gel coat to carbon or carbon/kevlar kayaks

I've been told that for a tough gel coat you can mix a polyester resin with a polyester gel coat 50/50  - is this something you would recommend?  If so, is it the same hardener used for gel coat and resin?

thanks
By FLD - 8/4/2012 5:29:36 PM

How about using flow coat?  Its an easy way of adding thickness to the gelcoat. 

What would be a good addition to the kayak repair guide would be details of foam cored boats.  These obviously need doing on both skins.  Access to the inside can be difficult so some ideas of how to do that effectively would be good.