Quote Originally Posted by hairball View Post
First of all, thanks for recommending your uncle to me for welding my old Tracker. He did a first-rate job and at a far lower price than I had previously been quoted. Great guy to do business with. We stood around and shot the **** for a long time when I picked up my boat. Anyway, about the Keelshield - I have one on my 21' Triton and I consider it one of the best investments on that boat. I noticed other posters saying that it would not work on an aluminum boat. That doesn't surprise me at all. Any time you put two different materials together, you have an issue with what is called the coefficient of expansion and contraction - basically, they move at different rates with changes in temperature. Aluminum is a fantastic conductor of heat, so I would imagine that it would want to move much more than the Keelshield, weakening the adhesive bond.
Glad all went well, yea when we were kids he was our go to guy with things we were trying to fix.