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Ha Bryan
I would recommend a foam roller that can handle epoxy paint. you can get them at marine hardware shops looking for a ¼ max 3/8 “ thick roller. I liked them depending on the job from either 4” or 6” wide nothing wider that that unless you are doing the outside of the boat and then with another guy who is doing the tipping with the brush. As for the brush you can get buy with good brushes of the first one or two coats. But on your final coat get the best quality brush on the market. I like the brush around 2 to 3 “ again on where in the boat your brushing. As for the non skid I didn’t use a brush I liked it bumpy and with the roller with the non skid that’s what you get I first did my boat with the find grit that’s not the way to go ended up redoing the non skid with 50 x 50 mixture of fine and coarse grid much better I also added more grit that what they recommended by about 50% extra grid. Remember you got to wet sand between coats and sanding removes a multitude of sins. Also remember the roller (on the smoother serf ices is actually putting on the paint the brush is to smoothe out the paint and remove the air bubbles. “don’t put a lot of downward pressure on the brush” oh on the primer I liked just using a roller on that as well remember you are going to sand between coats and sanding primer that has been rolled is better that sanding primer that has been brushed. If you have some scrap around you can practice first on a old piece of fiberglass sheeting before you tackle the boat itself. I did my center consol door a few times before I finally figured out some things. Good luck and remember if you mess up you can always sand smooth and do it again.
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