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Boat Crafters Company Boat Restoration Shop located in Boynton Beach, FLA. Specializing in custom fiberglass parts and supplies for DIY boat restorations.

10/17/2026

❌The rain in South Florida won’t stop ! So I’m inside working on my fiberglass console side door.

BCC-VE-V1, my 100% vinylester bonding & fairing putty. 🔵Highly thixotropic but easy to spread, built for gap filling, fa...
10/16/2026

BCC-VE-V1, my 100% vinylester bonding & fairing putty. 🔵

Highly thixotropic but easy to spread, built for gap filling, fairing, radius and fillet work on fiberglass polyester parts.

⏱ 55 min gel at 2% MEKP 925 (77°F)
🧱 12–24 hr full cure, 70–80 Shore D
⚗️ 1–3% MEKP 925, Hi Pt 90, or a VE-specific MEKP

$79.68/gallon at boatcrafterscompany.com (link in bio)

Stop wiping your glass with acetone every time you sand. 🛑Acetone has one job in a resto: cleaning grease and oil off be...
10/15/2026

Stop wiping your glass with acetone every time you sand. 🛑

Acetone has one job in a resto: cleaning grease and oil off before you sand. After that, wiping it over fresh scratches leaves gunk in them, can soften young resin, and does almost nothing to wax. And the v***r pools in your hull, where one spark can light it. There’s been several major boat fires around South Florida that were caused by the detailers using acetone that were ignited by vacuum cleaner hoses. This is not a risk you want in your shop !

Swipe for the diagrams and resource links in the first comment.

Part of my Resto School series.

10/13/2026

❌ you don’t always need to remove your entire stringer grid just to replace rotted plywood stringers consult with a reputable fiberglass restoration shop to determine if the glass lamination and tabbing on your stringers is in good enough condition and sufficiently thick enough to simply leave it and possibly add more glass to it to save you having to rebuild the entire stringer structure. This is not always possible but in some situations if the boat was glassed correctly.

❌A rigid stringer material can crack your hull if it’s installed wrong. 🛥️Plywood and Coosa don’t flex like your hull do...
10/12/2026

❌A rigid stringer material can crack your hull if it’s installed wrong. 🛥️

Plywood and Coosa don’t flex like your hull does. Let a bare core edge sit hard on the bottom and the hull bends over it every time you hit a wave, until it cracks along the stringer base.

The fix: gap it or bed it, fillet it, and step your tabbing.

Swipe through for the full breakdown 👉
Part of our Resto School series.
Sources:
1. Coosa technical data: coosacomposites.com/technical-data

2. USDA Wood Handbook (FPL-GTR-282): fpl.fs.usda.gov/documnts/fplgtr/fpl_gtr282.pdf

3. ISO 12215-6 (preview): webstore.ansi.org/preview-pages/ISO/preview_ISO+12215-6-2008.pdf

4. Boat Design Net, hard spots and stringer bedding: boatdesign.net/goto/post?id=823985

5. Boat Design Net, hard-spot crack patterns: boatdesign.net/goto/post?id=672024

10/10/2026

Here’s a few tips to help you avoid losing your truck at the local boat ramp.
1. Know the limits of your truck and be honest with yourself.
2. Asses the condition of the ramp and be willing to drive away
3. Keep your front tires on dry pavement and your foot on the brake
4. Have someone help so you don’t have to get out of the truck.
5. Use 4WD if you have it.
6. Have a good boat day not a horrible ramp day 👍🏼

❌ ever wondered how the stringer grid in your boat actually functions to distribute the flex loads on the hull bottom? T...
10/09/2026

❌ ever wondered how the stringer grid in your boat actually functions to distribute the flex loads on the hull bottom? Truth is the coring material you chose has zero effect on the grid strength and structure.

Once it’s glassed, the laminate and the tabbing carry the load. The core is just the form the glass was built on. In fact most new boats stringers are built inside a mold and they do@not use a sheet coring material.

If you’d like to join the conversation, I only allow comments from people that follow this page. This helps me filter out all the noise and BS.

Swipe through to see how a stringer actually works, and why you can’t skip tabbing layers. 👉

Part of my Resto School series.
Sources:
1. Vectorply E-BXM 1708 data sheet: rockwestcomposites.com/downloads/E-BXM-1708.pdf

2. ISO 12215-6 (preview): webstore.ansi.org/preview-pages/ISO/preview_ISO+12215-6-2008.pdf

3. Cognard, Bonding Composites (GPRMC rules): techniques-ingenieur.fr/en/resources/article/ti153/bonding-composites-bm7628/v1/calculation-and-sizing-8

4. Shear at ±45°: any mechanics of materials textbook (Mohr’s circle)

5. Boat Design Net, top-hat stringers: boatdesign.net/threads/top-hat-stringer-without-core-foam.18950

Coosa won't make your boat stronger. You're just wasting money!! One of the most common myths in boat restoration is tha...
10/07/2026

Coosa won't make your boat stronger. You're just wasting money!!

One of the most common myths in boat restoration is that a dense board like Coosa or Kay-Cel gives you a stronger deck or floor than foam. In a sandwich panel, it usually doesn't.

Here's why. The fiberglass skins carry the load, and the core's main job is to hold them apart. With the same skins and the same thickness, a 6 lb foam panel and a 26 lb board panel fail at the same load, because the skins break first in both. The dense board is only about 25% stiffer.

What you do get with the dense board:
💸 About 3x the cost: $380 vs $120 a sheet (¾", 4×8)
⚖️ About 4x the core weight: roughly 52 lb vs 12 lb per sheet

If you want a stiffer panel, go thicker, not denser. A ¾" foam core panel is stiffer than a ½" Coosa panel, for a fraction of the price and weight.

Where dense board does earn its money is compression. Transoms, through-bolted hardware, and engine mounts need a core that won't crush. Use Coosa or Kay-Cel there, and foam everywhere else.

Swipe through for the numbers 👉 Save this for your next deck build, and send it to the buddy who's about to drop $1,500 on Coosa for a floor.

Example calcs: 2 plies of 1708 per side, 24" span. Always check your design and data sheets for your application.

10/06/2026

❌ WARNING this is a deep dive video in response to numerous ill informed comments I’ve had recently pertaining to my Vinylester products. Some info cannot possibly be shared in short form so here’s the deets about resin promotion and catalyst types.

10/05/2026

boatcrafterscompany.com // New Angler 204fx project in the works. On my quest to eliminate all the garbage starboard from my boat. I started to build a new console access door out of fiberglass and high-density PVC core. It will be the same door that was there from the factory, except it'll be 100% glass and color-matched gloss white to match the console.

Plus it'll last the lifetime of the boat and won't look like s**t in a few months.
Stay tuned for a full tutorial on this process.

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Boynton Beach, FL
33424–33426, 33435–33437, 33472–33474

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