From: "Mark Mastalski" <mastalski_at_engr.wisc.edu> > Wow. I have to believe there is something else going on. I've sold and > installed hundreds of Mako Saddles and have never heard of this. The piece > which has "Yakima" on it is pretty soft rubber. It's hard to imagine that > it would actually imbed into gelcoat. This seems to me a gel coat issue > rather than a Mako issue. It's hard to imagine what that gel coat would do > if something with substance actually hit it! Sorry to hear it and good luck. I had a similar sounding problem years ago with Thule saddles. In my case, I did a gel coat repair using a waxless gel coat. I didn't clean up the surface very well (too eager to paddle) and there was still a thin sticky residue on the gel coat surface. The pad on the saddle left a grey layer on the surface of the gel coat. Since the original poster said he did a gel coat repair, perhaps the same thing happened to him. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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