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Step 8Bottom Paint
After our encounter with Trenchcoat Man we did a lot of reading and asking around about paint.
Some kinds of paint can't stick to others, some don't ever dry when they contact others.
Some paints need a specific primer coat. We didn't know what was on the boat now.
Bottom paint is different from topsides paint.
It contains copper which is poisonous to sea life.
The purpose of bottom paint is to keep your bottom from turning into a coral reef.
Bottom paint comes in two basic types, soft and hard.
Soft bottom paint is always red. It wears away exposing a new layer of copper to the sea life.
Hard bottom paint comes in various colors, needs to be scrubbed periodically to keep critters off it, but is a smoother surface so the boat will be faster. Hard paint usually needs a primer coat and is more expensive. None of the paint we used was cheap.
I think we spent about $300 on paint, rollers, brushes, gloves, etc.
There was a lot of agonizing over paint. We bought some, changed our minds, and decided to return it. They had gone out of business immediately after selling us the paint. OK. Problem solved.
That's one type paint we would use. We ended up needing five different types of paint.
On the bottom we rolled two coats of soft red bottom paint right on the bare hull. We brush-painted the waterline stripe with blue-black hard bottom paint. The masking tape for the waterline stripe had a tricky choreography, Taping and pulling the tape after the layer was mostly dry, to get each of the paint edges in the right place and overlapping each other.
Rolling the bottom paint on was really satisfying. It made the boat look so much more official.
Here's Kenny feeling the big emotional payoff. Next picture is the following morning doing the second coat. Rebecca, Victor and Kenny model the yachting wear of the season.
Some kinds of paint can't stick to others, some don't ever dry when they contact others.
Some paints need a specific primer coat. We didn't know what was on the boat now.
Bottom paint is different from topsides paint.
It contains copper which is poisonous to sea life.
The purpose of bottom paint is to keep your bottom from turning into a coral reef.
Bottom paint comes in two basic types, soft and hard.
Soft bottom paint is always red. It wears away exposing a new layer of copper to the sea life.
Hard bottom paint comes in various colors, needs to be scrubbed periodically to keep critters off it, but is a smoother surface so the boat will be faster. Hard paint usually needs a primer coat and is more expensive. None of the paint we used was cheap.
I think we spent about $300 on paint, rollers, brushes, gloves, etc.
There was a lot of agonizing over paint. We bought some, changed our minds, and decided to return it. They had gone out of business immediately after selling us the paint. OK. Problem solved.
That's one type paint we would use. We ended up needing five different types of paint.
On the bottom we rolled two coats of soft red bottom paint right on the bare hull. We brush-painted the waterline stripe with blue-black hard bottom paint. The masking tape for the waterline stripe had a tricky choreography, Taping and pulling the tape after the layer was mostly dry, to get each of the paint edges in the right place and overlapping each other.
Rolling the bottom paint on was really satisfying. It made the boat look so much more official.
Here's Kenny feeling the big emotional payoff. Next picture is the following morning doing the second coat. Rebecca, Victor and Kenny model the yachting wear of the season.
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