I recently purchased a 1978 Hydrasports Bass boat and am in the process of doing a semi-restore on it.
I've been playing around with the idea of a complete re-paint, but all my searches are turning up incomplete or conflicting information, and I'm not sure what to do.
I have a complete automotive paint shop, tools, etc. at my disposal and a professional automotive body man willing to do the work, but he has never done work with gel coat before. We are wondering if we can sand down the existing finish (which is the standard bass boat flake), and the paint over with an automotive base, followed by a mid-clear with new added flake, and then spray a few layers of clear gel coat over top of the automotive paint?
I know from the factory, the standard procedure is to gel coat the mold first, and then the fiberglass is applied second, but what is the step-by-step procedure for a re-paint?
I've been playing around with the idea of a complete re-paint, but all my searches are turning up incomplete or conflicting information, and I'm not sure what to do.
I have a complete automotive paint shop, tools, etc. at my disposal and a professional automotive body man willing to do the work, but he has never done work with gel coat before. We are wondering if we can sand down the existing finish (which is the standard bass boat flake), and the paint over with an automotive base, followed by a mid-clear with new added flake, and then spray a few layers of clear gel coat over top of the automotive paint?
I know from the factory, the standard procedure is to gel coat the mold first, and then the fiberglass is applied second, but what is the step-by-step procedure for a re-paint?