Gel coat Question

You get what you pay for. Mixing gelcoat color is not for the faint of heart and will cost you more then that to get all of the pigment needed to get there.

If you don't want to use gelcoat, look at Awlgrip. Thats easy to match, but with all that is needed may end up costing more.

 

Spend the extra $200. It’s a boat.

 

+1 here…..You have some extra bucks for entertainment (boat love) or you wouldn’t be here.

Now, imagine the repair is done, you’ve sprayed the $40 junk….it looks awful, really awful ‘cause it doesn’t match. You see it every time you look around your baby, you see it in your dreams at night, you see it in your mind’s eye every spare moment of your day……..you’ll end up doing it right the second time anyway, so why not save yourself all that that other stress?!?

 

I guess I had different luck than others. I used the gelcoat kit on my Chaparral 2550 about 10 years ago on a big chip someone put in my boat when they backed into it while she was tied up.

I guess the secret is proper preparation / repair of ding and using very little tint at a time, until it is a match.

After patch was done (properly), it was only visible if you knew exactly where to look and only in the right light.

 

I suspect Marine Max is marking it up quite a bit. I would check directly with Spectrum, might get the same quart for less $$.
SPECTRUM COLOR | spectrumcolor.com

 

I bought a 2oz container of paste from spectrum that perfectly matched the gel coat on my sea Ray.