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Boats & Boards: Mirage 14 years 9 months ago #29906

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[img]images/stories/boats/1605-1.jpg[/img]Product Discussion: Boats & Boards: Mirage

In its day, it was used for flatwater, whitewater, attainments, racing, green-wave surfing, side surfing, enders, waterfalls, and anything else that kayaks did.

The Mirage is thoroughly obsolete in all those categories, but it takes several modern kayaks to cover all that ground.

If you're happy, you're successful.

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Boats & Boards: Mirage 14 years 9 months ago #31105

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Hello community. I bought what I believe is a Perception Mirage about a year ago for $100! I did not have a lot to spend and I really wanted to get into the sport. I have a couple of holes on the bottom to repair, and after watching some youtube video, I feel pretty confident about doing this. However, I noticed that when handling the kayak, I could feel little fiberglass splinters! I was wondering if the best thing to do would be to mix a big bactch of the fiberglass resin and spray it on? Would that act as a new gelcoat? Or could I just spray the boat with a fiberglass primer, and then spraypaint the boat with some marine paint?

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JC

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Re:Boats & Boards: Mirage 14 years 9 months ago #29911

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What is the boat made out of? I used to have a Mirage and it was made out of plastic. Pretty similar to the image you had in your post - it was almost transparent.
If it is made out of plastic the technique you describe would be very inappropriate to repair this boat.
If, as your post suggests, it is made out of fibreglass, then you need only make small repairs where the holes are using patches of fibre glass matting mixed with resin.

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Re:Boats & Boards: Mirage 14 years 9 months ago #29913

StarkChaos Offline New Member Posts: 2 Thank you received: 0	That picture actually isn't my kayak, it was already posted on this page. I will attach my Kayak. Thank you for your input though, it was very helpful, and yes, i'm sure that my kayak is fiberglass. I hope to have this project done soon and will post new pictures as I go. Attachments:
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