Construction of Two Portuguese Style Dinghies (Small Boats)

Step 11 Paint!

This part took some time. I mean, what colors are we painting this thing?!
I used regular ol spray paint. Blue outside, yellow trim and green inside.
I put a layer of polyurethane all over it to give it a nice glossy look and to water seal it.
Because I live in Colorado, I doubt my little boat will get too much use. I think if you were really going to use this thing a lot you might look into more durable paints. I had a really difficult time even finding any information about "boat or marine" paint online.
Any ideas anyone?

Safety:
Use a respirator and gloves. Goggles won't hurt either.

Comments

[IceeofMN]

I've built one homebuilt boat and resurected two old fiberglass boats. When doing the research for the homebuilt, I found that most people use regular latex housepaint for their homebuilts. A friend of mind did this (he used Home Depot Orange) but I elected to use industral enamel over oil based housepaint primer. My paint has held up for four years now and only shows a little but of wear and tear. If I had to do it over again, I would have added a small amount of the paint to the primer to make the colors somewhat similar, the white primer really shows through scratches (the surface in desert tan). My friend's boat still looks fine too but the finish has dulled some.

[suraku]

generally you would want a decent marine paint unless you want to repaint every few trips available at <a href="http://www.westmarine.com/">west marine</a> which is expensive about $60 a gallon for paint then a good clearcoat for that shine and a little extra protection