Kayak repairs and maintenance
I have been asked a few times over the last few years about how to do repairs on composite kayaks, particularly about gelcoat repairs. I've been pretty busy recently doing just that kind of repair, so I thought I'd film the process to illustrate how I go about these kinds of things. First some background - it's important to point out from the outset that I am not a professional, or even remotely expert, kayak repairman. But I do have a fair bit of occasional experience working with GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic, as fibreglass construction is more technically called) since I was a kid in sea scouts, when all we had were GRP kayaks and they got regularly bashed and smashed on the rivers and we were perpetually repairing them ourselves. It's also worth noting that I have a very practical approach to work like this. It could be described as "agricultural", and by that I mean it is functional and effective, but not necessarily showing much finesse or perfection. ...