Neysa Narena wrote: <<<<<Does anyone have experience, either personally or through observation, as to whether or not hull scratches on a kevlar boat with a black gel coat looks particularly ugly?<<<<<<<< That might depend on whether you found highly visible scratches in your gelcoat to be ugly or beautiful. Since gelcoat scratches with a whitish scratch the darker the gelcoat the more visible the scratches will be. Only a rare major scratch will ever penetrate the gelcoat and let the Kevlar "straw" color show through (although the scratch will still probably look more white than gold). Matt Broze http://www.marinerkayaks.com *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 26 2002 - 21:03:46 PDT
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