I am putting new bottom paint on my 1989 J/35. A couple of years ago a professional boatyard charged me to do this job, and completely screwed it up. He can clearly see that in the areas where they had the supporting pads, the paint failed utterly. Similar thing happened on my keel.
Pettit Paints He's telling me that I need to take off everything down to gel coat in the affected areas. For some reason I was expecting it to be white. But there is red layer underneath the black paint and the gray primer. I am pretty sure that it is my gel coat, but for some reason the color gives me doubt.
I noticed before that in places where my toe rail shackles smacked against the hull, under the white paint was red. I always assumed that the boat was simply painted right in the past, but now biting into this with a 60 grid sand pad it seems thicker than paint... So that's the gel coat, right??
Pettit Paints He's telling me that I need to take off everything down to gel coat in the affected areas. For some reason I was expecting it to be white. But there is red layer underneath the black paint and the gray primer. I am pretty sure that it is my gel coat, but for some reason the color gives me doubt.
I noticed before that in places where my toe rail shackles smacked against the hull, under the white paint was red. I always assumed that the boat was simply painted right in the past, but now biting into this with a 60 grid sand pad it seems thicker than paint... So that's the gel coat, right??
