Blue spots on fiberglass

[lumina]

Hi All,

I recently removed the teak step plates from the cockpit of my yachtfish to refinish them (they are about 8" x 11", one on each side). I noticed blue spots on the surface of the fiberglass. There are no fasteners here or anything in the fiberglass that I'm aware of. These screw right into a 1/2 in solid piece of fiberglass. I lifted up the helm rug so the guys could to some maintenance and there was another patch of them.

Any thoughts

Trying to get photos up but keep getting a message that says they're too big.

 

[Pascal]

thin/worn gelcoat or paint letting the blue / green resin be visible

 

[rwetherington]

not really sure but could be where there were voids in fiberglass coming out of mold and they used some filler for a while at Hatteras that was blue in color rather than red as most of us are use to seeing

 

[lumina]

Roger,

Whats a void? (I'm ignorant when it comes to fiberglass). Is it serious or a sign of problems? Should I repair somehow?

 

[yachtsmanbill]

Youve got micro pin holes that are allowing uncured resin to bleed through. When I opened up my roof for a core repair, raw styrene vapor filled the whole boat. The core was the same color as your smily face spot! ws

 

[ppat324]

Hi All,

I recently removed the teak step plates from the cockpit of my yachtfish to refinish them (they are about 8" x 11", one on each side). I noticed blue spots on the surface of the fiberglass. There are no fasteners here or anything in the fiberglass that I'm aware of. These screw right into a 1/2 in solid piece of fiberglass. I lifted up the helm rug so the guys could to some maintenance and there was another patch of them.

Any thoughts

Trying to get photos up but keep getting a message that says they're too big.

Lumina, you need to size your pictures before posting them. Use photoshop or some other program. ppat

 

[yachtsmanbill]

If you are using windows xp. pull up a pic, and right click and open up "open with HP photosmart premier" and resize accordingly. My pics are 10 megs and I resize them to about 415 X 300. ws

 

[DeeRow]

If you are using windows xp. pull up a pic, and right click and open up "open with HP photosmart premier" and resize accordingly. My pics are 10 megs and I resize them to about 415 X 300. ws

Or upload them to tinypic.com where you can resize them as part of the upload process. Tinypic will host them for free (you will not be limited on how may pictures you post here.. hint.. hint.. willy) and they give you the message board text that you must add to your post for the picture to show here.

Mark

 

[ppat324]

OK. I tried tinypics. Lets see if it works for me.

This is MC Chris visiting us at the 4th of July fireworks show downtown..... ppat

 

[yachtsmanbill]

Works for me too !! ws

 

[ppat324]

Thanks, this works great!!! Bill is playing with AVI's now to see if that also works for us. ppat

 

[yachtsmanbill]

AVIs are a no go... now THEY have a size limit on those and they will chop at their discretion. I'll hafta stick to youtube for those... ws