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    Posted: 11 May 15 at 2:14pm
If that were mine, I'd be asking for my money back.
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Scary build quality. Ignoring the enormous void, the rest seems to be made from either those office supplies rubber band balls, or terrible CSM with no resin and certainly no vac bagging...

Oh yes, I remember the whole offshore production thing now...
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that's a big void ...  but it's also an awkward location  - far more complex  than the bus bumper example 
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Thanks All
 
I double checked around the "void" and there are not soft spots and it appears to be firm so I doubt I will use much filler.
 
Thanks for the advice
 
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Vareo 505.... hmm, I wonder where that one came from.
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I think I would send a photo to RS and ask "Should I be concerned about this?" and see what happens.
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You will use one hell of a lot of gelcoat filling that void! Get rid of all the unbonded gelcoat and then fill the bulk of the remaining depression with filled (microfibres) epoxy. Make the surface good with gelcoat and finish, as Chris says above, with diminishing grades of wet & dry and then polish.
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Quality laminated boat there eh. Even a company making bus bumpers with chopped strand matt would have done a better job. 
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Its a void. very common, especially on tight corners of the mouldings, though this one is a whopper!

Get some gelcoat from RS and just build it back up, reshape with 600 then 1200 wet/dry and polish it back.

RS will be able to tell you what colour it is and supply an almost perfect match. Mist grey is always a good match, Platinum is more hit and miss.


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Going back to the plastic padding colour match. I have used black humbrol enamel paint mixed in to get the right shade successfully for many years.a lot cheaper than buying the official stuff. And yes a bit concerning about the gelcoat having that gap and I've seen that on quite a few boats in the past. Perhaps try to wedge the filler into the gap as much as possible to create the bond between the two
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