: Mike, I have nearly the exact type of tear in a canvas SOF kayak.
: Its very small, I'm told the paint is a marine grade bottom
: paint. I hope you would clarify the steps to your repair. It
: seems that you stiched the tear first, the filled that stitch
: with Marine Goop. Then, you used the Marine Goop like contact
: cement to apply a patch over the stitched repair, let it dry,
: and painted it. It's the stitching part I'm not clear on,
: whether you stitched the tear to close it, or stitched the patch
: to the canvas. The advice I'm getting is to simply use a high
: quality contact cement to glue a patch over the hole, and paint
: it.

The stitching on mine was just to stitch the tear closed. It wasn't even all that great of stitching, I just wanted it basically back together before gluing the patch on. I did mask off the area before applying the marine goop as contact cement, that way there was very little outside of the patch area.