Boat leaking
Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:43 pm
Hi guys,
I am repairing a boat that has a leak coming from under the metal strip that lines the bottom of the hull. The strip was pulled away from the hull while loading it on a trailor(or so I was told!). My question is : the strip is not kinked..can I reuse the strip and just resecure or should I remove poly filler and reapply a new strip?...leak is coming from where the screw was attaching the strip to the hull and was torn away...(no chunks missing from screw area.....could I reapply the strip and poly filler around screws?
Any advice?
I am repairing a boat that has a leak coming from under the metal strip that lines the bottom of the hull. The strip was pulled away from the hull while loading it on a trailor(or so I was told!). My question is : the strip is not kinked..can I reuse the strip and just resecure or should I remove poly filler and reapply a new strip?...leak is coming from where the screw was attaching the strip to the hull and was torn away...(no chunks missing from screw area.....could I reapply the strip and poly filler around screws?
Any advice?
Re: Boat leaking
Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:51 pm
first of all post up a few pictures.this will enable everyone to give the best advice. 
dont buy polyfiller for a boat
dont buy polyfiller for a boat
Re: Boat leaking
Tue Jan 03, 2012 3:31 pm
I had a screw come out of my keel band on my old orkney - which caused it to slowly flood - that was a fun trip seeing the drain hole in the deck push out water - took a long time though and I got plenty of time to get some fish 
I used a bit of marine grade glue/filler (sikoflex I think - but may have been something else?) in the hole and put a larger diameter screw to get a grip into whatever it was screwing into which i think was grp and wood. Did the job fine and never had another problem with it.
Hopefully yours will be similarly straight forward, but obviously without seeing it or knowing what boat you have it's hard to advise.
I used a bit of marine grade glue/filler (sikoflex I think - but may have been something else?) in the hole and put a larger diameter screw to get a grip into whatever it was screwing into which i think was grp and wood. Did the job fine and never had another problem with it.
Hopefully yours will be similarly straight forward, but obviously without seeing it or knowing what boat you have it's hard to advise.
Re: Boat leaking
Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:11 pm
thescotsman wrote:I had a screw come out of my keel band on my old orkney - which caused it to slowly flood - that was a fun trip seeing the drain hole in the deck push out water - took a long time though and I got plenty of time to get some fish
I used a bit of marine grade glue/filler (sikoflex I think - but may have been something else?) in the hole and put a larger diameter screw to get a grip into whatever it was screwing into which i think was grp and wood. Did the job fine and never had another problem with it.
Hopefully yours will be similarly straight forward, but obviously without seeing it or knowing what boat you have it's hard to advise.
sikoflex is brilliant i have used it in the past .the lads also mentioned some other marine sealer which they rekoned was better
but i cant remember the name will have to search through the older posts to find it . but NOT POLYFILLER