The Felt Store Kevlar® Felt Skid Plates for Canoes - Excellent Cut & Abrasion Resistance, Protect Bow & Stern, Kayak Accessory for Canoe & Boat Protection, 2 Pieces

The precut keel and stern patches worked out very well ! ! !

Easy to install and works well.

We used the felt and G-flex epoxy to make repairs on an old canoe. The combination did the job! The felt and epoxy combine to make a really solid repair.

Application was "sticky" but manageable. End product appears to be durable. I'll know better after my first canoe trip.

It’s a bit of a messy job and a half but these skid plates did the job.. as intended. These are less expensive than many places you’ll find them and exactly the same thing. Difficult to be much different! Lol. Worked great!

you need coloring for the resin or else the boat will have bright yellow bow and stern.

I put these on a northstar canoe (Kevlar equivalent) with gel-coat. I used g-flex epoxy as some recommended and added pigment (darker green) to the epoxy so they would stand out a little less. It was NOT easy to work the epoxy into the kevlar skid pad mats and get on smoothly. It came out well, but seemed way harder than I would have expected to get to setup well and on very smoothly. I rolled it when part cured and that helped a lot. The texture of the skid pad is a bit fuzzy. Functionally speaking, it performs super well and protects the canoe. But I was wanting it to sit more flat for less perturbation of the water flow. The end result was not bad, but not as good as I hoped for with careful effort. I did not sand or recoat.

I used the kevlar pad to reinforce the bottom leading edge on my sailboats keep. The kevlar pad is is like felt and was easy to mold to the keels shape. It adds tremendous strength to this venerable area of my boat.