A friend cracked his crawdad moving it this winter,its about a 6inch crack from the top going down the hull.What is that green Colman stuff? I dont think its fiberglass so glass repair kits may not stick.Does Coleman make a repair kit? thanxs

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Thanxs for the phone# I'll pass it on. I tried goolging up coleman repair and such  but didnt come up with much.One guy mentioned you had to plastic weld it?? I have an older colman scanoe no problems with it but it would be good to know how to repair should one arise.

The crawdad IS a plastic boat.  I'm not sure how to "plastic weld" but I would imagine it is similar to the melting of a stick of "material" into the crack.  BEst bet is what RM said, contact Coleman, they may even offer the kit.

Good luck and let us know how you make out in case this comes up again.  Thanks.

The limited amount of  plastic welding I have around was very simular to heli arcing except it uses pre heated air to melt the filler material instead of electrictical current.  The rods are like and fed in pretty much as you would tig wire.  It might depend on the area, but around here there wasn't an a lot of of shops that do that kind of work for the general public, that I knew of a few years ago.  Mostly tank and vessel shops that installed liners.  There also is one place that builds pvc bird and bat houses that has one too.   I have see  small units advertised in a local sales papers for a lower end retail tool outlet chains like Northern Hydrolics or Tools and More.  These weren't very expensive, so I don't know how well it works  . Even though I have always wanted one I never had a much plastics requireing welding.

I used to have one of those. The manual says to use plastic milk cartons spread over the crack and heated to melting with a blow torch. This may seem hard to believe but that is what it said! So I guess you could fill the gap with any plastic of that consistency and melt it. Good luck!