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Hi Abl111

Removing bottom pain is one hard messy job that really can’t be done on your home driveway unless you live in a area that no one can see what you are doing. It’s a mess and you really need to lift your boat up in the air high enough to work on it if you want to DIY. I also had it professionally done using the soda blasting method. Then I had the bottom re gelcoated to fix the arrears that the soda blasting method went through the gel coat. If I were going to DIY I would bring it to a marine that would let you remove bottom paint have them put it high on blocks Rent a high pressure washer with the soda blaster hopper and go for it. Then re gelcoat the whole bottom yourself so you can cover up your mistakes and repair those arrears that need to be done. Your time is one day to set you your boat inspect the bottom and rent the equipment, one day to soda blast the bottom, one day to put on new gel coat and 2 days to sand bottom kind of smooth and re gelcoat your over sanded arrears. Then either buffing out the gelcoat or re painting new bottom paint. All in all you spent the better part of a week doing something you hate.

Make sure you first find the soda blaster and reserve it finding some one that has this equipment is usually not that easy.

I re did my whole boat EXCEPT removing bottom paint and re gelcoating the bottom for a few reasons
I could not do it at home, I hate working over my head and didn’t have a week I could take off work to do a bottom job myself.
I thing that Soda blasting method is the best way to go kind of like a wet sand paper job – you are not going to inhale some of the nastiest paint ever created that could mess up your lungs, and yet get the job done right.

If I were going to do it all over again I would do it the same way even if I had to take on a part time job for a few weeks to get the extra $$

FellowShip

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