Hi,
I'm new to fiberglass work, so I'm trying to learn as much as I can before I dig in too far on my DS1. In the follow picture, can someone help me identify the layers I'm seeing where it's been sanded down? This is on the port side with forward being to the left, just outside the cuddy.
#1 in the picture, what is this? It looks to be some sort of textured non-skid that wraps its way up to the forward deck and it's painted black, but underneath the black is the blue, which I would assume was the original paint or gelcoat (also don't know which it is, paint or gelcoat).
#2 I would assume is a paint that was put over the original at some point.
#3 I'm thinking this is the original color, again, not sure if it's paint or gelcoat.
#4 I'm assuming this is the actual fiberglass. I'm thinking that it needs to be stripped down to that layer since all the other layers seem to be in pretty bad shape.
Any help or pointers to posts that might help would be appreciated!
The second shows the extent of #1 to the front.
Thanks