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This autumn I have been mostly... painting my boat. It's been going very well. I have used the Jotun conceal which is a thick paint that dries quickly - like cellulose only apparently it is xylene based - dunno what the difference is. Anyway, the first coat covers very well and the second leaves a good thick finish. I've been using a 4" roller and the finish is basically a consistent rollered style as you would expect. I think another coat or two and I could afford to cut it with some strong rubbing compound (I mean, without risking going right through it) to get a perfect finish. The great thing is I can add coats next year as they say (of Pioneer, which is another xylene based topcoat) "It overcoats with future coats of Pioneer Topcoat very well, without the need for rubbing down." Just as well as I'm not quite sure about the colour tbh. I even took the time to run filler neatly over the welds. Just the stern and gunnels to do now
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Hello all, I bought my first boat in the summer. It had some astroturf on the top which I took off asap. The rust was not that bad, but I was advised in my local chandlery that I could wire brush it out and spot paint it with some zinc phosphate marine paint. So I did. This now means that I have grey patches over my cabin, some gloopy. I could sand them a bit and paint them green (the same colour as my boat) but as the old paint is quite faded it would show up as a contrast. The other prospect is repainting the whole cabin in April, but that sounds quite intimidating as I have a 60 foot boat. Does anyone have any advice about how to spot paint a pre-existing old surface whilst getting a respectable outcome? Many thanks Andy
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We have just brought a new softwood gangplank as our last was so rotten it crumbled. My question is, what is the best paint to use to prolong the life of this one. Primer, undercoat, brands that are good??? Also any advise on how to make it none slip would be greatly apprciated. Thanks in advance.
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As a traditional boat owner for nearly 10 years we found one of the most difficult and time consuming taskes was boat paint preparation. 4 years ago, Our boat cost the best part of £6,000 to be stripped to bare metal and repainted. One of the major contributors to the costs was labour and how time consuming the paint removal was, this took over 2 weeks and still it wasn't done to my fussy standards. I found areas around screws and such you could only get in so close, same as getting into tight areas even with with special tools, it was almost impossible. and I wanted perfection, as I was paying top dollar. Sadly because some of the original paint was left and surface preparation could have been better, we feel the boat will require more work as it's starting to show signs of rust and paint flaking, where the substrate had not been correctly keyed to take the new paint. So I may well have come up with a plan to produce a perfect paint preparation application that is eco friendly , dust free, and completely mobile, I can strip my complete boat in less than three days, and I mean complete, down to bare metal in all the nooks and crannies as well. The system was initially created for my Gate business in my workshop but I may make it mobile to take on my boat restoration again this year. the benefits I can see are substantially reducing the prep time, speeding up turnaround of boat being painted by the company, ensuring a complete and proper strip to bare metal, and leaving a good key for new paint to adhere too . but most importantly having my boat back in the water up to two weeks quicker than the last time. i would be happy to advise/help on anything to do with paint surface preparation. if I can save time, it must be a good thing? getting my wife to agree is another..
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Hi All I am now busy paint-scraping in prep for my repaint, and have been reading all the threads on different types of paints etc, but a fellow moorer told me to paint my back deck with Hammerite. Sounds OK to me but won't it be slippy??? I painted my garage door with it a few years ago and it's dead shiny
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Hi. I need my roof treating. It has some rust areas - not too much but I'm about to place some semi-flexible solars and so need the roof A1 before fixing. I've been offered a quote using paints supplied by Chemco International. In particular, these: http://marine.chemcoint.com/products/applications/topsides-and-boottop.html I'm wondering if folks here have any thoughts on these paints. Many thanks.