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Zepher repair

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:16 pm
by GARY HAZEL
Im a new person here but thought I'd give this board a try. My paddling buddy and I have Zephers and his is in need of some repair. The stern has gotton pretty soft after about a year of Oregon paddling. The rest of the boat is fine. but we can't get anything to stick to the boat for repairs. The area is about 1 & 1/2 sq feet that needs to be repaired. No cracks but just spongy. Shipping the boat to back Esquif is very expensive. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

Have you emailed Jacque

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:17 pm
by Wendy
Learning to repair will be a process from all I have read about the material. I would email Jacque and let him know what has happened to see options. Also- I talked to Howard at NOC. They had put a patch on the inside on some of the first ones that had a tiny leak. Your area is so large I doubt that would work. Out of couriosity are there any leaks in the soft areas?

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:09 pm
by jchasse
The best way is to ask Esquif directly, Chad Price our rep. in Oregon will help you, visit our WEb site to contact him.

Thank's
Jacques

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:01 pm
by msims
Jacques,

Any chance you could get a rep on the bboard to outline how esquif does repairs? There's a lot of banter across this board about this... I'm looking at buying my second esquif, had a nitro, looking at the zephyr :-)

Thanks for keeping it alive. :-)
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IOLITE VAPORIZER

Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:36 pm
by GARY HAZEL
Thanks. Ill contact Chad and let you know what he says.. Thanks everbody

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:29 pm
by GARY HAZEL
I emailled Chad as per Jacques reccommendation , but he had no idea how to perform a repair on one of these boats. Im chatting on some other forums closer to home but nothing so far. Chad wanted some pics as well . Its just a soft spot in the stern from lots of hard boating. No fault of the boat. A pic would be of a sctatched up stern . Im originally form Va. and got the boat from a creeker there before I moved to Or. Thanks for letting me post here. If i come up with any solution, Ill get back to here and post it.

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:07 pm
by squeakyknee
So it's soft, but not leaky?

zephyr repair

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:21 pm
by pmp
Hi all
I hear there is a cheap, easy way to do repairs. Now we'll just have to be patient as Esquif adapts it to home use so we don't have to ship our boats anywhere. I wouldn't blame a rep for not being up on the latest stuff related to this boat. things change fast on the cutting edge.
paul

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:00 pm
by squeakyknee
I blame everyone for everything all the time, especially myself.
But it's still YOUR fault :wink:

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:09 pm
by squeakyknee
What? No RETORT? I can't believe it...WTF?
Come on guys and Gals....
Y'all are dissapointing me :(

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:28 pm
by cheajack
Squeak;

You're soundin' more like longboatin' all the time!

Bests
Jack

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:39 pm
by squeakyknee
No doubt... May have to meet him someday. :lol:
Then again, we might just kill each other....


---Half a wavewheel does not a badass make...----

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:09 am
by cheajack
'pends on which half comes first!

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:14 pm
by mshelton
cheajack wrote:'pends on which half comes first!
The dumb half.

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:35 am
by squeakyknee
mshelton wrote:
cheajack wrote:'pends on which half comes first!
The dumb half.
Speakin of which,Thanks for the message on my windshield today Jackhole.