Spring has finally arrived and the temperature is around 10-15 degrees celsius, so we spent the weekend with installing the new skin fittings. Surface preparation takes a long time! First we sanded and cleaned everything with International Super Cleaner, then painted the areas with two layers of Danboline bilge paint inside to have it nice, clean and fresh. Then we sanded the skin fitting backing plates and the outside of the hull around the fittings, hoovered the dust, cleaned it with acetone, then rinsed with water and let it to dry. Unfortunately one of the transducers had a larger hole than 43mm and the previous owners filled the gap with silicone. We removed all the silicone and applied thickened epoxy around the edges of the hole to decrease it's diameter to 43mm, then sanded it. After reading countless of forums and articles on the topic we were hesitating between Sikaflex 291 and 3M's 4200FC as a sealant. As most of the content online are from US boaters, everyo
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