OPA class 7 Velocity Found Crack

[dreamerdfl]

I have a 1987 Regal Velocity. After flipping my boat and spending 100's of hours re-building and several $1,000 dollars I have suddenly found a crack. I have no idea how so many people who looked at it missed it but it was fairly well hidden up along the port chine right above the trailer fender. In any case I need help!!! Please!!! Is this repairable? Catastrophic? What should I do?

Crack is about 30" long, 1 -1 1/2 " wide and about 1" deep as ground down. I have included some pictures. What do I do.


The boat has all new transom, stringers, knees, bulkheads, blocked, sanded, painted...just a ton of time and money.

The crack is right on the chine where the drivers feet would be in relation to the length of the boat. Runs parallel to the length.

Don't know why the last two pictures are upside down. Sorry.

[Gorilla0178]

Can you tell if the crack goes all the way through the hull?

[vnemous]

when I had a crack like that in my challenger they took the inside balsa out and recored that section and fixed it from the inside.

[dreamerdfl]

Thank you for the info. That's what I was afraid of. Do you remember how much it may have cost to get that done and how long ago?

[vnemous]

Impressia did it in long isl . I had the notch xo e and two large cracks. Total was 900 so thats all I know. Pm raybo see wbat he says.

[dreamerdfl]

Followed crack and it does not go all the way through.

Can you tell if the crack goes all the way through the hull?

[dreamerdfl]

Thanks, good thing I guess is there is no core in the hull...all glass... and the crack does stop....it doesn't go all the way through.

Thanks again.

Impressia did it in long isl . I had the notch xo e and two large cracks. Total was 900 so thats all I know. Pm raybo see wbat he says.

[FUJIMO]

The '87 Regal Velocity's used 3/8" BalTek end grain balsa in the entire bottom. But...in the curled down pointed chine area where your cracking is, is probably heavy on chopped glass and filler...hence the cracking. Its an easily suseptible place to not have been rolled out properly also, when layed up originally.

[Zoomba]

I had a similar crack in my Sanger strake. I fixed it by grinding the inside and laying a layer of 12 oz biax inside the chine, then fillling the chine with a cedar clapboard cut to fit, then glassing it in the full length of the chine.

If you want to fix it from the outside, you need to grind the chine open, fill it with vinyl ester or epoxy putty, then scarf and glass a couple of layers over the strake and fair into the hull fiberglass, I would use about 3 layers of 12 oz biax, and make the repair go about 2" on either side of the crack, with the layers staggered at the edges. That part of the hull is forming a hinge during wave slamming, and breaking the fibers.