prepping to paint the pearson p26 - advice and insights welcome :)

[tipsyravensailing]

Hey all. been a hot minute as i've been bringing other things around at the house. but i'm back on the work w/ the boat and staring down the paint problem.

I'm going to go with interlux brand and follow their suggestions as best as i possibly can. I have a few booklets i got from them that i'm operating from.

I'm going to hand brush and roll the paint on where i can.

I'm doing every exterior surface as part of the work.

With that said here is where i landed:

using the calculator https://www.smlmarinepaints.co.uk/calculator here and comparing against the west marine and interlux "suggested quarts" for bottom paint as my base line (my findings actually call for an extra quart than theirs) this is where i landed.

interlux 2000e barrier under the water line with vc17m extra over that.

Primekote primer elsewhere

perfection for the freeboard, interdeck for the deck. standing areas to be painted in blue, otherwise everything is white.

Plus strippers/cleaners to prep surfaces, as well as the thinners to get first coats down as well as tool cleanup.

I plan on buying a 5 dollar roller for each paint per coat just to save on the thinner cost to clean up. I'll buy a couple tipping brushes from defender and will plan on cleaning those between coats.

right now the plan is to strip the unknown bottom coat, then use the surface prep after wash to clean up. The rest of the boat the surfaces will be roughed and then coated with primekote to prep the paint. any deep gouges or fairing areas that need to be fixed will be (doing that currently and into the next week or so). and then off to the races to get it all painted. thankfully i have a couple folks onboard for helping me getting surface prep done and my dad and another friend who's painted boats before on hand for the actual application.

I'm stinging a little, 1200 minimum, closer to 1500 probably when all the bits are bought and an emergency run to west marine or two for more thinner or god knows what. i paid 2 grand for the boat but its within budget so enh. price to pay the piper to play. If anyone sees anything i blatantly missed or messed up please please let me know

 

[nightowle]

make sure to paint within the proper temperature guideline. A warm to hot hull will screw up the flow of paint. I think getting thinner to paint ratio for proper flow is hardest. best to do some test spots or use some similar fiberglass pieces from another boat to test your technique and mix.

 

[TomY]

Wow! Seems like a lot of paint for a 26' boat. Even taking two coats into account (the second coat will require less volume).

If it helps, we paint the topsides of a 38' boat, one coat - roll and tip - with 2 quarts of one part enamel. Bottom paint, we put on one coat annually of a water based bottom paint, with 2 quarts of Aqua-guard.

As mentioned, doing this work outside, the weather is the most important factor.

 

[tipsyravensailing]

that is actually really good data points. i think i'll make my initial buy smaller and use west marine to fill the gaps. i have a west marine thats 5 minutes from where the boats on the hard so it works.

And yeah, i'm definately outside doing this. i can wait for a low humidity day(or three) but we're already hitting 80s here.