Re: Gel Goat Matching
Ha MM33
Now’s the time to repair all minor dings, cracks and what knows with epoxy filler and sand to all is even and smooth. Then just a light sanding to enable new finish something good to grab onto. Then use the product line you choose primer coat and primer the selective area you are painting, in your case the whole inside of the boat. Then a light sanding of the primer to even things out again. Then you want to do at lease 2 or 3 finish coats wet sanding between the coats. Awlgrip have a booklet to walk you through the steps in painting. I read awlgrip’s book three times while I was doing the prep and primer stages even thou I used the Stirling line of paints they even have videos you can buy. As for painting outdoors YES you can paint outside I did my boat in the driveway. You need to pick your days though. No rainy days, no days with lots of wind & dust, don’t paint during the time of year that lots of pollen from the trees is flying through the air either. The deck is the most forgiving area due to the grit that will be used on the last coat so “for Practice” I would do the deck first just for experiencing how things work.
There are some old threads regarding painting and Ship shape has some videos as well you can buy. All in all Painting has been considered a fearful project by many guys but after I passed through the fear factor and decided to do it myself I really wasn’t hard to do and it came out looking very good and saved me approx $4,500 on my boat project which bought lots of extra other new stuff.
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