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I ordered up some of this keel eazy to put over top of it:

http://www.keeleazy.com/product/keeleazy-2/

TG05 wrote:You need something like a KC Welder. You've got to melt the edges along the crack on the kayak and the repair plastic so they flow together and fuse.

I watched their video, very nice! Same principle I used, but their iron gets a lot hotter and gets the job done quicker. I was going to put some mesh in there, but the stuff I got from work had paint on it, so I thought I'd just try it without first. If I had more cracks to fix, I would buy one of the KC irons for sure.

Spent 5 hours in the water today, kayak was bone dry inside when I got done. Even caught a few fish;

See there! As soon as you used a Home Depot orange bucket it got better. Looks great, and the red was a beaut!
TexasJim

That thing was a horse!

Here are the other two big ones I caught: