No. The fiberglass & spray dust can land on your neighbor's boat and cause problems later on. I've seen many other repair people do these repairs at the dock. A perfect example of this is when a guy was doing a fiberglass repair on a customers boat at the dock. Their neighbor decided to catch some rays on her boat. A Big 50Ft. Sea Ray. She lies down on the sundeck of her boat. Then all of a sudden she starts to scratch and roll all over. The next thing her whole back was blistered and red. What happened here is that she laid on the fiberglass dust that the guy was grinding next door. The dust is almost invisible when ground down.Well she went to the marina management and screamed at them for allowing this, The Marina Management chased the guy out of the yard and banned him from doing work their again. The second reason I don't do it in the water is that the boat bounces around too much to get the lines straight or to even get a good color match. The trick to getting good color matches is to have the spray gun set at a certain distance from the job. With the boat bouncing around that's hard to achieve.
Yes I can. If I don't get a match I won't do the job. You will have to approve the final match that I get. As for using the factory gel-coat. If you where given the gel-coat when you purchased your boat then its most likely no good. Gel-coat is only good for about six months. The molecular structure breaks down. It may look good in the container, but after being sprayed on your boat you'll see how the sun breaks it down a lot faster then if it was fresh gel-coat. If you get the fresh gel-coat from the factory it will not match your boat. As soon as your boat leaves the factory the suns ultra violet rays starts to change the color of your boat. You'll see this if you have side stripes on your boat that have peeled off. You'll see how the stripes protected the color of the gel-coat from the sun. It will be a lot brighter. So when I mix up colors I like to start from scratch. I don't want to be guessing what the factory put in their gel-coat to get the color of your boat.
If the boat is in my yard and worth more then the repair job, then you don't have to give me a deposit. I do this because it keeps me motivated to get the job done on time. When the job is completed I expect to be paid in Cash or Certified Check only. Customers have told me that they gave big deposits to other repair guys to fix their boats and then the boat just sits around for months with no work being done.On jobs where the repair is more then what the boat is worth, I require 50% up front, the remaining when completed. (Examples: Old Boats, Boats without Engines or Outdrives, Boats without Trailers.) If the boat is not picked up from my yard in a reasonable time then there will be storage charges added to the repair charge.
Yes I do guarantee my work. I make sure my customers are satisfied with their repairs. Also I'm Better Business Bureau certified. You can feel safe doing business with Custom Boat Repairs.
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