Boat, paint or not to paint

[George]

I have bad chalking on the boat tried the usual t cut and paste then marine polish, but the next season its back again. Its a lot of work for for the results.

I would like to paint over the original gel coat as theres faded and new parts were some stickers were. what would be the best option paint wise to get a realy good finish.

I would like to paint and know the benifits of keeping the original gel coat but I think the whitening has gone beyond anymore buffing off. The colour is red, bright lovely shiny were a sticker had been or the cover had been, more a orangery whitey red otherwise ! and its just the top half of the boat I'm considering doing the bottom half is fine.

Any help appreciated.........

George..........

 

[mark]

have you tried farecla?

better to cut it back and repolish than paint if you can. Be surprised if you can't get it bright again with farecla. lot of elbow grease but worthwhile

could try a small patch to see if it comes back. Boat that are still original will always be easier to sell than painted ones, even if a little faded

other option apart from paint would be to gelcoat it it again. use flocoat (gelcoat with wax in it)

much harder finish than paint so won't chip/scratch and probably cheaper than buying pukka marine primers and paints

 

[lingking]

paint

paint

must agree mark flocoat is the biz!!!