Hi Everyone,

It's about time we uploaded a new video tutorial! - This time, it's a straight forward, easy-to-follow guide to making a light to medium structual repair to a damaged composite kayak, canoe or boat. There's no special equipment necessary we just use a top quality epoxy repair resin, carbon/kevlar reinforcement and release film stretched tight to make effective, neat repairs to the hull.

Even if you don't have a boat (let alone a damaged one) then you'll probably still find some of the techniques used here of interest for your own projects.

Here's a link to the Kayak Repair Tutorial in our Online Composites Learning Centre.

I'll embed the video below but don't forget, we shoot all these in full High Definition so for a better quality version, please view on YouTube or the Learning Centre and choose 'HD'.



Any questions or feedback welcome.

Matt

Matt Statham
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Sales

Hi Fubarvader,

Yes, you could certainly repair a whole hull in the way that we do the small patch in the video. You would have  alot more areas to pay attention to though so when doing the filming and squaeegying through you would indeed need a much slower resin/hardener. I would suggest our EL2 laminating resin using the SLOW hardener. This will give you at least 1-2hrs working time on the hull (once the resin has been spread out over the hull it will slow the reaction down considerably) whilst you get it wet through properly, filmed pulled tight and any air bubbles worked out of it.

The cure time on the EL2 using a slow hardener will then be very slow (like 24hrs) but I this is well worth it to ensure that the resin doesn't start curing on your whilst you're still working on the hull.

I hope this helps. Post some pics of the project because it sounds interesting.

Best regards, Matt

Matt Statham
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Sales