jrannestad
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I have a 2004 parker 2320. Its on a mooring during the boating season in New England. When I pulled the boat in the fall the bottom was severely gouged up. Not sure how it happened. Maybe something floating down river with some metal on it got hung up on the boat. Maybe it was the stem of the mooring at low tide. Whatever. The gouges to the gelcoat are all over the place plus there are one area where the gelciat has been pretty well scratched off that is 1' x 3' in size. I have a couple shops looking into repair. They both wanted to strip all the bottom paint, fill and fair with some sort of epoxy putty then barrier coat the bottom up to the waterline and then put on a new coat of bottom paint. I asked them why they don't put gelcoat back on and they seem to say that its not needed since barrier coat is now required in any case and the gelcoat, if replaced, would have to be sanded anyway to be able to bond to barrier coat. Its also less expensive to fill and fair with epoxy putty rather than with gelcoat in all the numerous areas that need filling. Looking for advice as to best way to repair.