My plan is to compound and polish the majority of the existing gel coat. There are four spots where the gel coat crazing is bad, and I plan to repair these. My approach was going to be widening out the crazing with a Dremel, and filling those spots with TotalBoat fairing compound. I was then going to apply gel coat over the filled cracks and do my best to match the current color of the gel coat. The crazing is shown in Figures 1 and 2.
Another area of concern is a small splitting of the fiberglass on the edge of the transom seen in Figure 3. The outer layer of fiberglass is splitting and delaminating, but the joint between the inner and outer fiberglass molds looks solid. There are no soft spots around this delamination and the transom shows no sign of water intrusion. I was thinking of filling this gap with a marine epoxy. My other thought was to grind off the split fiberglass, re-glass that small area, and then apply gelcoat.
I've done a decent amount of reading on this forum, which is were I got all these ideas from. I'm mainly looking to get others opinions on if I am approaching these fixes correctly, and certainly am open to suggestions. Figure 4 is just a glory shot.
Q1: Would my technique described above be sufficient to fix the crazing shown in Figures 1 and 2?
Q2: Would epoxy be a sufficient fix for the delamination shown in Figure 3, or should I consider a more involved fix?
Thanks,
Eric
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/1MXi8c4.jpg?1)
Fig. 1. Crazing on corner of transom
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/i8ZhL8f.jpg?2)
Fig. 2. Crazing inside splash-well
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/IqpIyqR.jpg)
Fig. 3. Splitting fiberglass in question
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/dMwinMM.jpg)
Fig. 4. Glory shot of the boat after being picked up. I already unloaded the railings