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YJs 1236 Semi V Mod
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<blockquote data-quote="onthewater102" data-source="post: 378176" data-attributes="member: 13702"><p>Fiber Reinforced Paneling - its fiberglass panels used in bathrooms, showers etc. available from home depot or lowes in 4x8 sheets.</p><p></p><p>It's just a fiberglass sheet - costs about $32/sheet @ the big box stores. It has a textured finished side that has a gell coat applied to it, but the other side is just straight fiberglass. You can scuff it up a bit with some sandpaper and apply bondo or other fiberglass directly to it. So once i fit it as nicely as I could to all the curved edges I just went over it along the edge with some more fiberglass to fill in and clean everything up.</p><p></p><p>It's not as durable as wood or sheet aluminum - but it certainly holds up to normal uses just fine (walking loading gear etc.) The one time I damaged it I dropped my 80# thrust 24 trolling motor (~75lbs) on it trying to align it on it's quick release mount. There is a section where the pin that locks the quick release mount stuck out and of course the whole thing landed with that pin pointed down & it punched right through the FRP - but it would have dented aluminum pretty badly too with that much weight on such a small steel pin. It was an easy fix though...just glassed over it and by morning it was ready to go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="onthewater102, post: 378176, member: 13702"] Fiber Reinforced Paneling - its fiberglass panels used in bathrooms, showers etc. available from home depot or lowes in 4x8 sheets. It's just a fiberglass sheet - costs about $32/sheet @ the big box stores. It has a textured finished side that has a gell coat applied to it, but the other side is just straight fiberglass. You can scuff it up a bit with some sandpaper and apply bondo or other fiberglass directly to it. So once i fit it as nicely as I could to all the curved edges I just went over it along the edge with some more fiberglass to fill in and clean everything up. It's not as durable as wood or sheet aluminum - but it certainly holds up to normal uses just fine (walking loading gear etc.) The one time I damaged it I dropped my 80# thrust 24 trolling motor (~75lbs) on it trying to align it on it's quick release mount. There is a section where the pin that locks the quick release mount stuck out and of course the whole thing landed with that pin pointed down & it punched right through the FRP - but it would have dented aluminum pretty badly too with that much weight on such a small steel pin. It was an easy fix though...just glassed over it and by morning it was ready to go. [/QUOTE]
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