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Reply to: Nacra 5.7 damaged in flooding

[quote=tominpa]Last week Pymatuning Reservoir flooded, with the water rising up to 16 inches above summer pool level. This floated the catamarans on the beach, and somehow, it seems a piece of debris sliced the hull just aft of the center. When approaching the boats to move them to higher ground I did not see the damage, and the first image, I have put the Cat Trax under the boat to bring it up on shore. You can see a 13.5' kayak floating free behind the boat. I kept two kayaks under the boat never expecting they would be afloat. [img]https://i.imgur.com/viCUZ4th.jpg[/img] Here is the damage, behind the Cat Trax wheels below the 5.7 decal. The hull was pushed in and sliced moving forward. This was sitting underwater. [img]https://i.imgur.com/IhCDUieh.jpg[/img] After grinding and re-aligning the repair, it was obviously repairable. Yesterday I got 5-layers of epoxy saturated woven glass on the repair on the inside of the hull, and 2-layers on the outside. This image is after the first layer of West 407 fairing, followed by sanding and a second layer of West 410 microspheres in epoxy. This image shows the first layer before sanding [img]https://i.imgur.com/dzCxn28h.jpg[/img] Today, everything was sanded down, and I got the first coat of Interlux Primekote primer on. I will do my best to get a good appearance with Interlux Perfection Arctic White to match the boat, but I will inevitably have a line from the new paint since this is just a patch. I don't know if I'll bother to paint the hull later, but at least I'll be back on the water later this week. [img]https://i.imgur.com/bPLzKaUh.jpg[/img][/quote]

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