thanks all, it appears that i have brought up a pretty good topic, I will be "drydocking" my Cat this coming september through October, the winds are pretty much dead during this time as we anticapate typhoons, not a good time to have your cat parked on a beach, so I plan on repairing any hull damage that happened during the season, but I really want to totally dismantle the entire boat just to see if there are any problems arising at all. I would like to "redo" the bottoms gel coat and get rid of the scars from all the beachlandings, I would appreciate any input on such a task. I believe I saw somewhere a KIT to redo the bottom scars but not sure where I saw it. I also have a second set of rudders that I want to refinish in some sort of Plaid material, but Im having trouble locating the plaid material that I wish to use, (something like what Paul Bunyon wore) if you no where to find any plaid type paul bunyon type fabric manufactureres please include a link.

thanks for everybodys help..

regards,
Darrell