Boat painting

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AFishin69

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I have another question? The boat I just bought needs to be painted.. its faded and it could use it. I am not looking for a perfect pro paint job just a soild consitant color compared to the faded color now. It is fiberglass hull, is there any spray paint that would work and to fiberglass and be waterproof.. any recomendations I want to do this myslef so I think spray paint of some sort woudl be eaiser for me?? Anything at hardware store?<br />Thanks Andrew
 
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AFishin69

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Re: Boat painting

Yeah I guess I didn't know there was a difference. Are the sides paitned with different paint?
 
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Spidybot

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Re: Boat painting

As with ALL paint jobs, the crucial part is preparation.<br /><br />The surface must be ready, a suitable primer should be applied and then a good marine pain on top. I fthe boat is left in the water, a bottom paint (antifouling) should be added on top of the marine paint.<br /><br />Marine paint (pretty close product to car paint) has more gloss than the original gelcoat - if added by spray or roll in the right layers.<br /><br />As the materials ends up costing a considerable amount of $ you'd want the result to be best possible and this can be acchieved only by doing right from the very beginning. No easy solutions here can be covered later by painting over. A sloppy preparation will stand out when final paint is applied.
 
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