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Taking care of an older boat
My S2 sailboat is 27 yrs old and the gelcoat is badly chalking. Today
when we went to clean her, the water all round her was milky with the stuff from the gelcoat. The gelcoat has numerous tiny stress cracks and thin spots. Over the years, I have tried various polishes with very little luck. I think that with a lot of work, something could be done to remove the oxidation and then cover the surface with some sort of wax or other barrier but this is an extreme amount of work. I have considered re-painting her topsides but I have never seen this work well, often it flakes or soon looks worse than the original. The new coat rarely covers the old stress cracks either. Is there a solution to this? I have used a water or alchohol thinned two part epoxy primer on my home built boats and it adheres very well and I wonder if this stuff will work as a deck paint over gelcoat. |
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