[Eric McNiff]

All said and done....at the end of the day it is probably just a matter of preference and what you are more comfortable with. I think you can get good results out of either process if you do it right. I have seen both great paint jobs and great gel coats.

I heard that Sterling paint is a really good product, too. I think it is a little cheaper than Awlgrip as well, isn't it?

Lurch - for the undersides (like under the gunwall?) you can spray gel coat too if you want. I didn't bother - but you could do it if you wanted to. You could probably get good results just wiping it really well with a dewaxing solution (Interlux 402) and just spraying it - the raw glass probably has enough "bite" to hold it without sanding. The nice thing about that is that you don't need to "gloss it up" after spraying (as no one will really see it), so you could spray it and forget it.