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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 04/25/2025 :  15:56:35  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I don't see any indication that it has any barrier coat on it. The white areas appear to be the original gel coat. Don't be aggressive in your sanding. You should avoid sanding away any of the gel coat. Catalinas built in 1989 and thereafter had factory applied barrier coat. If a pre-1989 boat has no significant blisters after 35+ years, it might not need a barrier coat.
Steve Milby J/24 "Captiva Wind"
previously C&C 35, Cal 25, C25 TR/FK, C22
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 04/26/2025 :  06:12:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I again suggest a nice pull scraper instead of sanding.
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Bruce Ross
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Jerry Bennett
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Response Posted - 05/02/2025 :  12:14:45  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks guys... I lost the keel photo trying to get it right side up on here... getting photos to post correctly is becoming annoying. But you are right, there isn't hardly any barrier coat on the keel... but I didn't sand it off, it was that way from Leon... for some reason when he faired the keel, the barrier coat didnt bond to the glass looks like. Here are pics of the port side barrier coat.. there was no bottom paint in many areas and a good number of those places have devel9oped blisters under the barrier coat... I was obliged to sand them out and so they can be repaired properly... its a lot but I think I'm doing it right.
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 05/02/2025 :  13:06:22  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
For info - Take a look at my website for the blister repairs performed some years ago. Areas were so bad with blisters on top of blisters that many areas had to be repaired with fiberglass cloth, resin, recontouring hull portions and then 7 coatings of interprotect followed by bottom painting.
Larry
'89 Robin's Nest#5820, Potomac River/Quantico, Va
http://catalina25.homestead.com/olarryr.html
Edited by - OLarryR on 05/02/2025 13:09:13
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Jerry Bennett
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Response Posted - 05/03/2025 :  12:31:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks Larry, nice webpage by the way. Condition looks the same as what I have going on. I don't plan to fiberglass the repairs though. I was careful to not take too much meat while sanding, and I think that a judicious application of epoxy barrier coat will be a sufficient repair.. I hope. If not, I can sand it back off and glass the areas if necessary. Fortunately, it doesn't look like the blistering problem is very prevalent on her underbelly... and the starboard side only has maybe 25% as many blisters... but the keel is completely bare to the fiberglass.... and the glass is very smooth.. might have needed a rougher surface to bind too maybe.. I dunno
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