"Joe" wrote in message

Soon as it cools down a bit I'm going to pull the boat and do a bottom
job.

I usually just roll on the bottom paint.

Do you think it would make any preformance difference if I sprayed the
bottom paint on over 2 coats of spayed on epoxy instead of just using
a brush and rollers?

Depends upon the type of paint you're spraying.

I used to spray VC-17, but most ablatives and/or modified epoxies are almost
too thick to spray well. And of course you have the problems of overspray.
It took me longer to tape a plastic barrier around my boat (to keep
overspray off the neighboring boats--a marina rule) than it did to roll on
two coats of the stuff. Spraying, IMO, is probably not worth the effort
with bottom paint.

If you do spray, be sure to wear a foolproof respirator with organic
canisters.

Max