Bottom Painting

[Scott]

Recently hauled 1988 Catalina 30 had a few teeny-tiny hull blisters and 6 layers of blistered bottom paint plus a barrier coat. Now stripped to the gelcoat and the advise I'm being given is to NOT reapply the barrier coat, just apply Petit no-sand primer followed with two coats of Trinidad SR, launch and haul again in two years. Looking foward to lively and conflicting responses........

 

[Allen]

Barrier Coat

Scott,You probably got good advice about not applying another barrier coat right away, but I'd definitely take a different approach.If you have a barrier coat & still get blisters, then your hull isn't dry enough. The ultimate solution would be to fully dry the hull out, re-apply another barrier coat, apply bottom paint & launch. To give up on the barrier coat altogether, in my opinion, is going to almost guarantee the reoccurance of blisters in the future. If it were me, I'd get a 2nd opinion. If they concurr with what I'm saying here, you might want to take some time to do it right & permanently fix this problem.I hope this helps.Allen Schweitzers/v FalstaffC-30 Hull# 632