[Toby]

Brent,
On a small repair of this sort you could cut a piece of filler,(I used hardware cloth) to fit the hole and cut your matt in the same shape but 1/2" larger, be sure to sand/feather the edges of the hole for a good bite then sandwich with matt and resin on one side at a time to the desired thickness. On my project I never worked more than 4 oz. of resin at a time. Kind of like, how to eat an elephant? one bite at a time! Anyway, once you have the patch thick enough, just sand and paint. Like someone said earlier, even if you screw up you just cut it out and do it again. You WILL need some acetone for clean up! and rubber gloves help.

Toby