In this video I go over how to repair old screw holes on a fiberglass boat. This Classic Boston Whaler Montauk came to me completely stripped down so I honestly had no idea in what condition the original screw holes were in. With that in mind, I go ahead and repair all of them (the ones facing downward).
A key element of the repair is coring out an area underneath the deck so that the epoxy resin can expand, in effect providing a solid platform for attaching items to the deck. One thing I do different foam others here is to use a bent nail rather than an Allen wrench to core out some foam. When the time comes to add rails, the leaning post zlegs, etc, I'll redrill the holes in the epoxy filler.

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00:00 Introduction
01:26 Preparing the Screw Holes for Repair
02:21 Bent Nail Alternative to Allen Wrench
03:22 2nd Method to prepare a screw hole for repair
05:32 Vacuuming out the screw holes
05:53 Preparing the Epoxy Resin and Dye
07:23 Using a Syringe and Catheter to fill in Screw Holes
10:00 Topping off the Repairs with Epoxy
10:43 A Recommended Sequence to Follow
12:59 Recap and More Tips

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