Color Match?
I have seen more of these than I care to think about... For gelcoat, use an expert if you care about appearance. If you have significant damage beyond that use a glassing expert or an excellent repair man with a good idea and the ability to carry it through to completion.
A customers boat was dismasted and had severe bow damage when hit by a famous boat that came loose from its
mooring during
hurricane force winds (97 mph) many years ago. The famous meter boat sank. My customers boat was placed in a slip where I could access and
work on it and it became a very attractive sailboat again. After the glass and gelcoat
repairs by others I had a fabrication make an icebreaker stainless reinforcement for the bow and through bolted to the
deck to hold the new forestay. No problem with boat damage when hitting the
dock or being hit by some other object at the pointy end... That night of bad
weather I was working on USC's
research vessel, Velero IV. In Santa Monica Bay and Los Angeles Harbor... No one hurt and we worked through all that
weather into the next morning to nearly noon. Nicer being on a 110 ft vessel than a dink.