"emaildisguised" wrote:
On 6 Mar 2005 13:47:18 -0500, steve620

wrote:

I have a 18ft Baylinner with a Cuddy and I need to Gelcoat it
but
never did it before. Is it hard? I don’t want to mess it up.
I’ve been
told you just roll it on like painting a house. When I told
people
that I was going to let a marina do it they thought I was
nuts, can
anybody give me any advice??

Are you looking to refresh the paint or change colors?

The normal method is to use a roll and tip method to repaint
the boat
with Awlgrip or similar.

First, you are going to need to strip waxes, old chalky coats
of
whatever off the boat - wash it throughly - sand it (doesn't
have to
be a deep sanding - 80 wet sanding will be good enough - then
it's a
question of rolling and tipping the paint.

It's not a hard project, but it will take time if you are
doing it
yourself. Or if you don't have experience with epoxy paints.

Later,

Tom

Just looking to refresh the paint

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