Beneteau 361 green boot stripe

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tnathan

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May 5, 2015
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beneteau 361 Essex
hello,
I have beneteau 361 with the forest green boot stripe. I have a little hairline crack at the transom that I noticed this year. I was hoping to gouge it out and add some epoxy in it to close it up. When I am done, I was hoping to top coat with green paint.

Reading on here, it seems that the green stripe is gel coat. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix the green gel coat. Is there anything out there that is color matched? I checked beneteau and they don’t seem to offer a touch up kit. I suppose I could just find a two part epoxy from interlude and paint the whole thing. While the green is getting a little tired. That seems like overkill.

Any suggestion how to touch up the forest green gelcoat? Thanks.

Tim
 
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jssailem

SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
Oct 22, 2014
23,238
CAL 35 Cruiser #21 moored EVERETT WA
@tnathan I understand you can color gelcoat with an paint based pigment. Check with a local chandlery that may have gelcoat. Check out the website BoatworksToday. (https://www.boatworkstoday.com/) He has great tutorials on fiberglass repairs.
Tim, I would guess Jamestown Distributors (who market resins and Gelcoat) can help with the color and product.
SBO store may also have product that can help.
 
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ToddS

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Sep 11, 2017
248
Beneteau 373 Cape Cod
I have a white Beneteau 373 (2004) which has a dark green cove stripe, and it is actually a vinyl sticker, not gelcoat. I'm not the original owner, so I cannot attest that it came from the factory that way, and obviously the 373 and 361 are different models... but worth investigating/considering whether that may be the case on your boat as well... if it is a sticker, you can generally feel the raised thickness with your fingernail.
 
DougM

DougM

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Jul 24, 2005
2,242
Beneteau 323 Manistee, MI
The bootstripe on my 323 is gelcoat.
Although I have not needed to repair it, I know that I have seen color chips somewhere that provide the formula for any color gelcoat. It may have been in a large autobody supply shop. I just cannot recall. (halfheimers I guess)
 
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Philip_Oceanis 361

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Nov 23, 2009
437
Beneteau Oceanis 361 Clipper --
I don't know if the original bootstripe of my boat was gelcoat or paint (don't know how to tell) but I repainted it some years ago using good quality car paint with the roll and tip method. Result was very satisfactory.
 
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Gunni

Gunni

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Mar 16, 2010
5,937
Beneteau 411 Oceanis Annapolis
If you can’t live with the hairline crack an epoxy filler will do the job, then you just need to match the paint on the entire section of involved boot stripe. My boot stripe was actually a metallic auto touch up type. BeneteauUSA was able to give me the name and part number.
 
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arf145

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Nov 4, 2010
495
Beneteau 331 Deale, MD
The wide green boot stripe on my 331 was paint. I know because it had flaked off pretty badly before I painted it a couple of years ago.
 
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Capn John

Capn John

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Sep 19, 2010
48
Beneteau 41 Deltaville, VA
The stripe is painted, and the Beneteau Parts website identifies it as Interlux YQB-663 Jade Green. But it's $173/gallon!
 
Bluenose

Bluenose

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Jan 10, 2018
264
Beneteau 331 Halifax
On other sailboats I have owned (and there have been many) I always used good old Tremclad.
 
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arf145

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Nov 4, 2010
495
Beneteau 331 Deale, MD
I have to adjust my report of having used Epifanes Waterline, which I based on a receipt I had for that paint. But on further bushwacking through the mental cobwebs, I remembered that the Epifanes color wasn't what I wanted, so I moved on to Petttit's 2 part EZPoxy2 Enamel in Bermuda Green, which worked for me.
 
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