Painting

[Scott]

Fellow-ship
Thank you for the follow up,,,I may need to talk to you more about the paint and cost of materials. I figured out what it was going to run me to get the primer/paint etc and for about the same quantity of material I'm looking at almost double what you paid...I'll grant you that you are in a more boat rich environment than I am up here...It seems that everything down south is much cheaper...I'm sure due to competition (like having the boat painted). You hit the nail on the head about the cost of having it done by someone vs. doing it yourself ...for me up here I'm looking at 3,500 just to have the hull painted and thats the easier of the two to paint...as you have found out first hand by doing all the prep work on the inside...

By the way...in prepping the hull have you noticed any "weave" showing through?? (as you look down the hull at an angle can you see the weaving pattern from the fiberglass mat) If you did ...are you going to correct it and how will you do that(high build primer???) I have seen this in some paint jobs .... and so naturally the cost can be driven by this type of correction and prep work...I've even seen a boat where the old name outline was readable through a paint job(that was done "professionally”…. I think I would have had a few words and a new paint job from that guy) It was a dark green so you could see every imperfection in the hull that wasnt properly taken care of.

Well I'll be in touch
Scott