Tim - the one other cat sailor in our club has a 1 year old FX 1 and had a crack come up on the spinnaker snuffer or whatever they call that thing. His guidance was to use some Krylon matching color paint after redoing the fiberglass part. I'm donating the glass to him this weekend, and then he will try the Krylon trick. If it works out I'll let you know, as I have some hull redoing to work on also. It's not a gelcoat problem, but the fiberglass patches I put on over the old time holes and to get it all looking nicer I'm going to try like Jake says, some paint first. I've also been told that if you just stand back farther from the hull it looks lots better - a 25' finish I believe it is called!

Dick