We are approved boat repairers for many leading marine insurance companies on the basis of the quality of repair work we undertake. As with all GBR work you should reasonably expect repairs to your yacht to be invisible. The secret is understanding how colour works in gel coat. Different depths show different colours. New gel coat must be colour matched at all levels to provide that seamless finish. Joinery especially when fire damaged, can provide an exciting challenge. Our shipwrights meet the same standard as the GRP team – all repair work will be immaculate. Whatever the scale of repair we will be happy to provide a detailed estimate and, if sought, will make suggestions of other main servicing work that can usefully be undertaken at the same time.
We believe we have the best gel coat colour-matchers in the business. We specialise in fibre glass repairs – be it renovating old tired fibre glass and doing away with imperfections or dealing with more severe accident damage. The key to our reputation is the ability to match colour. Stare into any hull and you will see it has slight colour variations at different depths of the paintwork. Matching this multi-depth, multi-colour finish is an artform.
We are approved repairers for many leading marine insurance companies on the basis of the quality of repair work we undertake. As with all GBR work you should reasonably expect repairs to be invisible. The secret is understanding how colour works in gel coat. Different depths show different colours. New gel coat must be colour matched at all levels to provide that seamless finish. Joinery especially when fire damaged, can provide an exciting challenge. Our shipwrights meet the same standard as the GRP team – all repair work will be immaculate.
Whatever the scale of repair we will be happy to provide a detailed estimate and, if sought, will make suggestions of other main servicing work that can usefully be undertaken at the same time.
The best yacht racers are aggressive – and whilst all attention should be given to safety & seamanship – if you don’t have an incident or two to your name then it’s possible you just aren’t pushing hard enough ! For those ‘nearly brilliant’ moves GBR is there to pick up the pieces, get the boat back to the yard (be it our yard or elsewhere) and make repairs. As with all our work you should expect the repair to be so effective that the boat will be at least as strong as before and the mend will be invisible.
This is a repair undertaken after a t-bone collision during a race. The boat limped back to our Port Solent base and we undertook an invisible repair, even to include the deck tread pattern. The idea again, was to bring the boat back to how she was just prior to the incident and both deck and hull were separately colour matched to achieve this result and to blend, seamlessly, in to the rest of the boat.
In this instance you see that a T-bone incident left us having to cut away a large amount of damaged fibre glass, before reinforcing and rebuilding the hull. Needless to say, even with such a large hole, the repair is invisible. The boat also went on to win its next race !
Your boat’s key materials, be it GRP, Carbon, Timber or Kevlar (or a blend of all) will have undergone far-reaching property changes, even in a small fire. Strength, colour and texture will all have been affected. The GBR team have a host of experience with fire damage, what can be saved, what must go and, most importantly what must be achieved in order to hand the boat back as strong and as beautiful as she was before the fire. These pictures show a Fairline Phantom that suffered extensive fire damage and was completely refitted by us at Port Solent
We undertake repairs to wooden boats. Here is an example of collision damage to a wooden toe rail and teak planking on a GRP boat. When undertaking a wood work repair, we also stain, lacquer to desired colour, matching wood flower etc. All detail is painstakingly observed and re-instated as original if so desired..
Outlined in the pictures here is a steel Powerboat that caught fire at Bray on the Thames and was featured by Motor Boat monthly. See the full article in the feedback section of this website.
This TVR had previously had an incident and had been repaired and painted by another company. However, after a while, stress cracking appeared in the way of the old repair which bought the vehicle to us. We ground out the damage and found that the previous repair had come away and needed doing completely again. As you can see from the pictures, it now looks stunning and is also structurally sound.
This TVR is shown at events around the country and, as in everything that we do, the end result was very important to both GBR and the proud owner.
Gelcoat colour matching is quite a skill and was very applicable in a recent motorhome repair undertaken by GBR. The motorhome had hit some tree branches and conventional bodyshops were unable to match the colour. The owner was also a yachtsman and so bought the vehicle to us, which was duly repaired and colour matched to invisible status by the GBR team.
This Jetski was beached in the Solent and needed the Goodacre touch as can be seen from these photos.
