Has anyone had good experience with a shop in Austin? I would be willing to go to Houston or DFW if necessary.

What do you need to have done? I've heard the shop in Lakeway Custom Boats(?) maybe does good work but since I do my own I can't say first hand. There's also a shop out in Volente but again, I have no first hand experience.


John

Depending on what you need to have done, Full Throttle Marine might be able to do it. Bob's got mine down there now finishing up getting a new motor in and doing a little gel coat work.

I had a BAD experience with one in Austin. Not any of the above.

I need to have my dash completely resurfaced on my 38.

Have you considered paint? I can't think of any real advantage gel would have in that application, and the hassle of spaying, sanding,and polishing gel is a huge disadvantage.

I do not think paint will work. There are stress cracks that need to be ground out. I know a couple of good shops in Dallas, but they will not have the space for a 38' boat.

you might try SUN VALLEY FIBERGLASS.They are just south of Ft Worth off from I35 about a mile.They have two good sized ex aircraft hangers to work in.The phone number is 817-293-9568.Larry Boyd is the owner and contact.They just did a dash for me along with a lot of other work.All gauge holes were filled,the helm was removed and the total dash was matted,glassed,gel coated black,sanded and polished to mirror finish.I had planned on overlaying with carbon fiber.However,after seeing this I am not.

Did you have Larry paint it too?
John

John, I've heard Custom Fiberglass does good work, but are pretty slow and expensive...what's new right? That's not a job I would personally want to undertake. Are you going to pull all the gauges and such or do you anticipate the shop doing it all? We have a good fiberglass man that could do you a good job in gelcoat or imron, but he doesn't do fancy graphics. What we would probably do is derig the dash and then send him the boat to fix the dash. Give me a shout if you want to talk more.

Bob