Thank you! Hopefully it holds for many years to come.
Great idea with the centerpunch. Having the knowledge that it would be an issue ahead of time would have made all the difference. I was clueless, especially since the boat is new to me. This is partly why I made the long post above -- since this is a common spot for breaks in the hull, it might help someone else who has a similar job to do.
I didn't drill the holes on the edges -- that's probably the only thing I didn't follow 'by the book' as explained by various Youtubers. I think I was partly freaked out about drilling into my new boat, even though it was for it's benefit. Also, I figured that once I melted all the plastic together and added a mesh into the mix as well, that it wouldn't make a difference at that point... hopefully I'm on point there. I was running with the assumption that the holes mostly were to keep the crack from spreading further before being able to weld it, and while working on it. Now that I reworked it over and over, and there is a mesh in there, it feels stronger than it was originally, so fingers crossed that the crack won't spread further. Eh, if it does, I'm well prepared to fix it again at this point.
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. I just looked it up -- It's "Skwoosh", right?