Ok....been doing this for 20 years now. This is the 40th GTM I've worked on here. I wish someone could explain to me how this sort of thing is even possible? In the first photo, I have some arrows drawn. The blue arrow points to the top surface of gelcoat. The 2 orange arrows point to a layer of fiberlass/resin. The green arrow is another thick layer of (uncured) gelcoat that has the consistency of chewing gum. The 3rd orange arrow is another layer of fiberglass/resin. The other photo is another area where I see the same thing. I've made quite a few fg parts here from moulds, and I'm still trying to figure out how you end up with something like this? You coat the mould with gelcoat, wait for it to cure and then fg over the top and then pop the finished part out of the mould. So how in the heck do we end up with gelcoat, and then fg and then gelcoat and then fiberglass? In the 3rd photo, you can see that the uncured gelcoat is still soft and sticky and wraps itself around the dremel bit. It is really close to something like slightly dried chewing gum....the dremel digs it out in big chunks and you can roll it between your fingers and create a ball like silly putty or play-dough.

This is the hood latch pocket area and also the area right in front of the latch pockets. There is about a 3/16" mis-match in the mould here, so the plan was to dremel the seam down, rough up the low side and use some fiberfill to blend the mis-match in the mould.....just like I've done dozens of times before. Once I started grinding the seam, I kept finding all of these areas of soft gelcoat and just kept dremelling until I finally got to something solid.


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