Jacqueline
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What should I paint it with? What kind of paint? Primer or no primer?
Bad paint job
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Jacqueline
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I want to be out on the boat all summer, not sanding it
Jacqueline
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In some places it is fibreglass, in others gelcoat. I think I will try to find a chemical paint stripper
Soulshine
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Well, paint stripper in general can be nasty stuff especially in confined spaces so be careful.
Avoid methylene chloride strippers.
The Aerogreen stuff is biodegradable and has no harmful fumes.
techmitch
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- May 1, 2008
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I'm pretty sure we all thought were talking about your 1992 290.
boatrboy
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Thinking the same thing
You can't have everything. If you don't want to do it, then pay the piper.
It IS a great price... if we were talking about the boat in your signature. If you are talking about a different boat, you never mentioned that and that probably would have been good information to include. But even so, $2K is still extremely reasonable for that job.
JimG
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From the original first post:
I guess we have to interpret this to mean something other that your 290... you really need to be more specific if you want specific recommendations.
I guess we have to interpret this to mean something other that your 290... you really need to be more specific if you want specific recommendations.
Sure ain't no 290!
I stewed on this for a while then had to get it out - what gives with the arrogant and condescending comment?
Someone new comes on for help and you throw this down.... To what end is the comment for? It's simply just wrong.
Henry Boyd
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I kind of share your reaction to the comment as well, but at the same time think the comment is valid. The OP has discarded all of the technically sound advice for correcting the problem as "too much"; time, effort, money, etc, prior to sbw1's comment on what she admitted is a new purchase. So it seems reasonable at this point to dig deeper into the motivation for having this boat to tailor some form of alternative remedy.
BTW the boat she is talking about is 5 meter x 1.5 meter, or 16 ft x 4.9 ft, so it is not the 290 listed in her sig. Sounds about the size of a Lund or Alumacraft open tin boat. Around here the clammers and lobstermen frequently paint their tin boats with house paint; its cheap and looks like hell, and as such is a great theft deterrent. Using house type paint is also common in Italy (home of the OP) by professional fisherman as many open fishing boats are wood construction.
That said, with that size boat one could sand and paint the exterior in an afternoon with a good sander and brushes, hardly the whole summer as she stated: "I want to be out on the boat all summer, not sanding it", above.
I re-painted this below, that is a little smaller, over a period of four days with total accumulated time of less than six hours. It took the time because I did bottom paint, hull paint, varnish and bilge paint. Total tools being a Makita rotary sander, paper, and a dozen foam throw away brushes. If it had been one color I could have done it faster. I did use marine paint only because I had it left over.
@sbw1 comment was out of curiosity.... how you guys jump to arrogant and condescending is a stretch at best
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