Thread: Marine Paint recommendations

So what I'm taking out of this is:

- for the recoat of Sixpence's hull, use the poly but roll or brush it.

- for the other painted bits, which will amount to fore deck (maybe) and interior, use marine enamels where I'm not using varnish.

With the bloke who served me in the shop. It's been a long while now but I'm pretty sure he did the right thing with his advice. I've a long track record for being a bit slap dash with safety and there was none of that with this paint job. That suggests to me that the bloke got his message through and to be fair to him, I went in there telling him I was going to spray. Frankly, I would have been skeptical of being told that brushing was as good, particularly as I've got some good spray gear.

Now, for future boats and assuming that things don't change too much, how safe is 2 pack to put on with a brush? I will, of course, revisit this at the time, but there'll be others reading this and wondering. It's hard to go back to something soft like enamel after you've experienced the joy of poly and genuine safety concerns would be one of the few reasons I can think of (hell, I even laid down four, thin rolled layers of poxy before I painted her - wasn't happy with the third - that's for Mik who possibly remembers having to convert me ).

Richard