Excellent Andy! Great info - as usual. I have many, many cracks to address aside from deck replacement. This all helps tremendously.

Beyond the excellent work you do I am extremely impressed by the cleanliness of your workshop.

Such informative & well-presented content that you've kept up for years now - great to learn and follow along as life progresses for you!

You sir, are a legend. You’ve likely saved my boat. Thank you.

Andy, very nice tricks there with the fiberglass. Thank you for sharing.

It is awesome to watch a craftsman at work. You make it look easy. I know it takes time to perfect any craft. You have mastered yours.

Cool technique! Looks like a good solution for the cracks I hope to get around to this Spring. Thank you!

Hi Andy. I just love the fact that you've got Sail Life stickers on your band saw. The idea that you and Mads connected, and that you have such a deep respect for one another, is sublime. I found your channel through his, and I am gaining confidence in doing my own projects on my recently purchased 1967 Santana 37 sailboat. With gratitude and respect, Leroy Radford, Seattle, WA

You are helping me restore my 1991 keywest 1700 sportsman. Thanks for sharing your skills and knowledge.

Wow, thanks, you made this look so easy even I can do it. Got some cracks on my old Alo Mikkel 26 sailboat that I’ll try to fix after the winter🙂 Keep up the great work👍

Awesome repair with the flexible epoxy. Thank you!

OK - I am sold! I will be using Thixo for my mast step FG and wood replacement on my sailboat... THX Andy for the great demo!

Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. You are a fiberglass god!

This is perfect. My Chris Craft Commander is relatively crack free, the cracks it does have are exactly what you’re going after in this video. It’s good to know I probably don’t have to get into as large of a repair.

Would love to see it being finished to match!!! Hopefully in a video coming! Great you tube videos keep it up! Very professional!!

Andy - maybe my imagination but the show appears lighter than usual - yet delivers some of the best advice ever. Great combination and look forward to the next video.

Thanks for sharing this. I remember watching this months ago. I just hauled out for annual antifoul and noticed the gelcoat on my sun damaged transom had developed cracks. I'm going to try this method to fix it.

That's an awesome method, I'll definitely be using this in the future. Thank you

Hi Andy, I'm a composite technician based in Australia and i just started using a 'power file' and a vacuum where possible instead of a grinder and it's great so thanks for the tip.

eEery episode is a a fine lesson.Prep for the repairs needed on my macgregor 26 from when I almost lost the boat on On Lake Erie this past summer.

I was impressed also with the flex in the filler ,Wow also ! thanks !

awesome bandsaw Andy. redoing the non-skid on my 22 year old Waterman using your video as my guide. coming out great so far!

Thanks for the great video's it's has inspired me to start up some fiberglass work on my boat. Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰

Great video Andy. Stress cracks are the bane of my two second hand boats. Thank you and keep the informative videos coming.

One of your best videos Andy, imo. 😉👍

Great video Andy, thanks for sharing.

Time for Andy!! Yeah!!

Thanks Andy I hope your shoulder is feeling better. You make it look so easy. Great explanation and video. I have been watching your channel for a few years, I dont know how I missed this one up till now, but perfect timing, I have some cracks I have been wanting to get to, and this Thixo Flex, looks like the perfect product. Love all your vids, and send all my boat friends here. Thanks for sharing your immense knowledge 🤟

I use a two pack epoxy cartridge gun system for gluing climbing anchors into cliffs. Yes, we always spurt out a couple of big pumps before each glue session and for each new nozzle. We keep that as a sample so we absolutely know that within the hole the glue has gone off. Best practice. You are doing it perfectly. Great explanation as well. Excellent to see you using something to smear the glue into the surface too mate. I was getting agitated in my seat and then just like that you used the stick to smear it in. Awesome.

Thank you.

Andy. You seem to enjoy shaving about as much as I do, which is to say “not much”. Bertram 25’s and Rhodes 19’s however are right up my alley. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for the great tip on those cracks. I guess I will give it a try on my boat project. I've got a lot of fiberglassing coming up on my KZfaq channel as well.... So I'm trying to pick up as many great tricks from you as I possibly can... I will refer to your channel many times I guess. Thank you... What you are doing is really great stuff. Best regards Jarle

Thanks for the tips Andy. That is one of this summers projects on our big boat. I was wondering how I was going to tackle them.

Subscribed! Your my go-to Glass repair Guy. Just got a Nordica 17 and it's one big crack with blisters. But is so cool. All in there are no repairs so I can see anything needing fixing without cleaning out a bad job or product. Thanks much.

Great product for those small cracks! Sands pretty easy as well. B.G . Bermuda.

Great vid once again. I love the narrated part!

I have the same crackling thing going on in the cockpit of my sailboat. Inspiration!!!! I'm going to order some of that wiggly epoxy and give it a shot. Of course, now that means i have to repaint the boat....

I love your channel and always learn something!

Another great video Andy, thank you

I have a lot to do on a boat and this video was very informative.👌

Who knew? I have been planning on buying a Makita 9031 sander. I clicked on the link here and found it for the best price on google. $30 -$50 less from your link!! Gotta love that. Thanks. JP

Hey Andy, this video just answered all my questions for fixing stress cracks on my sailboat. Also, when I get my channel up and running, you're getting another sticker! I hope there's still room on the saw.😊

Great videos Andy.

Well done as always!

Tried the new caulk gun, it is awesome!

Just found your channel. Love it. I live neat the TotalBoat guys and love to go over there for tips, tricks, and supplies. I can see I need to ramp up my tool crib, too.

Excellent video Thank you.

Great video guy. nice to see the work and ideas.

Wow Thixo yeah !!

I have a little belt sander/ shaper and it has a vacuum attatchment, it's made buy Grizzly Industrial and you can dial the speed down real slow and make hardly any dust. Love that tool. I have an air one to but it's more messy. You can adjust the angle of the belt to different angles also. And it's small and easy to use with 1 hand. It's the cats meow.

Like always, great vid very informational. Thanks

hmm i just might try this on my skiffs hull - thanks for sharing

I have to thanks you so much for your videos .I appreciate your experience and tips I have a C&C 36 sailboat that needs a little bit here and there and oh also ....yes there too ..so thanks keep it up🙏🙏🙏⛵️

Very clever mate

Good job

love the show and the stickers.

Spiffy stickers!! Lol!

Love all your videos!!! Let's see some fixing the bottom hull of a boat not able to be flipped or a boat that has top cap sandwiched down to the bottom hull!! Please

This is a great video as are all of you videos. I have an old boat that I enjoy working on myself and fiberglass repair is new to me. I wish that sometimes the video would show the complete project and tell the steps from start to finish. I feel comfortable with fiberglass and resin but I do not have an understanding of how to transition from the epoxy you just laid down to applying the gelcoat. I really do not understand and to transition to the gelcoat step. Thanks for the videos, they are great.

nice product im going to try it

Nice bandsaw!

Another great video, Andy. Looks like I’m picking up some flexible epoxy in the near future. I’ve tried the same approach with West System using the slow hardener without great results. Thanks for the good advice!

very informative, thank you

I wonder if Salt and Tar has stickers? Great channel and story. If you're not following them, they're building a wooden sailboat. I know, it's not glass, but still...it's neat to see the other trades/craftsmen/women living a boating life. Cheers!

Pretty awesome how it can bend so far and still not snap!

Hey guys FYI, Gel Coat will not properly cure if applied directly over the TotalBoat Thixo Flex Flexible Epoxy Adhesive. You will need some sort of filler/barrier or you will end up with gooey soft mess of gelcoat where it contacts the epoxy.

Nice very informative

I have been using this process since I watched a couple years ago and I’m at a rv marine dealership finger’s crossed no comebacks

Awesome!

Liking the videos. Learning a lot. I found your channel while looking for info on how to repair my Fiberglass Hull 1/10 Scale Hydro

All my cracks are going to be a breeze now thanks to your video. Now if it would just warm up errrr

G R E A T ! ! ! No dust !

Great!

Wow, I’m impressed with the flexibility of the flexible epoxy. Never got into those tubes. Good to know, thanks. I wonder if they used continuous strand mat ? Being that those cracks were “continuous”.

Lifehack: sticky roll for cleaning clothes sometime helps to pull out fiberglass scales and flakes out of skin. Sometimes sticky roll can be replaced with sticky tape. Put stick side on skin, glue, and pull! (just like epilation)

15:40 good material 👍

I'm repainting my upper deck on my 32 Challenger Sailboat and it has a few layers if paint and crazing all over. I'm not looking forward to it. I fix boats for a living so mine need to look good right lol. I love this boat but man lol. Yes grinding out all the cracks and laying down 2 Matt's over the top and then sanding it all down then filling pinholes with duraglass. Then I'm rolling and brushing gelcoat baxk on and aim to sand and polish then redo my non skid, fun times ahead. I started building a building over the top to work under out here in the PNW. today.

Need to include Danger Marine by Danger Stu, Austraila, good boating repairs as well as mechanics on boat motors, lower units, carb repair, boat handling , etc.

Is there another video that outlines how this was finished? I will be tackling something similar (lots of stress cracks in a thickly gelcoated deck). I am in Canada, so will be using G-Flex by West System and I am going to try Interlux Brightside. If there are any videos that pertain to my project that could be linked, I would appreciate that. Thank you for continuing to provide such an excellent resource on this fiberglassing world that is so foreign to many of us. Cheers

I am waiting for the next step after you filled the cracks.

Simple Panel Bond!

Andy! I look forward to every show you do. Keep up the great work!.... I have one request.... can you do a show about flake gel coat repair... example: bass boat gelcoat with all the flake... maybe I would appreciate that a whole bunch

Have used mixing nozzles for Space Flight polymer work, and stopped using them. They work most of the time, but not all the time.

After having applied a thickened epoxy to a ground out spot I like sometimes use a clear box tape over the area. This spreads the epoxy out and gives good contact especially over a rounded surface. Next day simply peel the tape off and way less sanding. Ever use this trick?

Andy, Getting ready to do some gelcoat spider cracking repair. Have you heard of mixing Marine Polyester Gel Paste 60/40 with the right color gelcoat? The paste is clear so the gelcoat color comes through and it just needs sanding/polishing.

Another great video Andy.Your caulk gun caused me to look at mine and we both have the same ! ( we must be connected in a weird way ;). I will be ordering Thixo asap.I like that you do not have to purchase an expensive gun to use it like panel bond and Wen products. Oh , the belt sander is already in my wish list at Amazon.

Interesting fix Andy. Can I assume you intend to paint and not gelcoat over the area? Because sometimes gelcoat won't cure properly over epoxy. The gelcoat you ground out appeares to be very thick not exactly .020-.030" max , probably explains the cracking.( looked like 1/8"). So I agree, that Flexible epoxy is impressive I shall be trying some. We recently did a project with regular total boat epoxy gluing large Phenolic discs for a forming tool , loved it! My guys even took out the blue mixer and cleaned it out, I will watch the mix if we do reuse it. Sorry a rather late comment. Cheers warren

That thixo flex may work well for bedding stringers

Hi Andy, I have been watching several of your videos with great interest! You have been presenting great information that I haven't been able to find any similar information for RV's. So I have been trying to generalize your information into the nose of my 5th wheel. It is a fiberglass nose with a gel coat. So I had ordered the gel coat with wax and are planning on using that to fill in the groves that I have made. This Total Boat Thixo Flex looks very interesting and perhaps I should be using it. I looked for it on Amazon and found 3 different choices. Not having any experience I am trying to figure out where each would be best used. On a side note your link above for Thixo Flex wouldn't work for me. Thanks for your video's! Keep up the great work. *--Michigan-*-

The carbide burr that he’s referring to is called a “ball nose tree burr”.

by the way great show

Great stuff, can you point to the video where you did the finishing up with the gelcoat etc.?

I guess by video date you have figured out your tools abilities by long time yourself, but as a tip to those other guys buying or just having bought one. Most power band files is a 5 in one grinder deal. Longside with undersupport, for flat surfacing and making bevels. Longside without undersupport gives smooth curve transitions and bigger outer radiuses. Transition between supported longside and wheel, gives a tighter hardgrind curve. Good for "submission beatings". Etc. The other side - to wheel proximity combo gives smooth transitions from big curve to smaller curve. Straight on wheel is good for inner fillets. Radius of inner fillet can be changed to bigger by angling the tool sideways and/or twisting it clock/counter to groove. Then aim tool for the middle of surfaces´ axis, for fillet grind symmetry. Happy grinding. :)

Andy by the way I like ur work

Andy you're up early and working on a Sunday? Ahh the tireless work of a KZfaq boat working sensation! What? Shaving? Haven't touched a razor in 6 years! That sander does seem to be your favorite sanding tool, too bad they don't make a dust collector/ hose connector for it. Yeah first comment!

Pretty dang spiffy!

Hi Andy, thanks for the great videos, super helpful. Would you aplly the same technic on a big area on the hull?

The reason that radius matches is because it's the same tool used to create the radius when it was built, or at least that's how I've seen the guy's do it at sunseeker etc.

One of the best features of Thixo is you can unscrew the top, clean up the opening a bit and cap it, to save the remaining product for the next time you need it. Most of their products come with two mixing nozzles, and you can buy a bag of 10 at a reasonable price. Really good way to get a little thickened epoxy when you need just a little bit.

I am very impressed with the flexible epoxy, bur what is the next step of your protocol? Paint? Gelcoat? Fibreglass?