[C320-list] Hull paint quantity?

[Robert Seastream]

Just personal preference; nothing to do with performance.

Bob

On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:57 AM, mike hunter wrote:

> What is the significance of bottom paint color?  At our bottom diver’s 
> request, my Wife and I painted the hull of our last boat (Catalina 27) 
> with Petit Trinidad.  He said of his 15+ years in the business it 
> seemed to work the best?  We rolled on 3 coats at the water line and 
> leading edges, and 2 coats on the rest, and there were no bare spots 
> when we sold it two years later.  We bought our 320 with blue paint on 
> it and it looked good (no bare spots or flaking) when it was hauled 
> for the survey a month ago.  I was just curious?
>
>   Mike
>   #637
>
> Warren Updike <wupdike at hotmail.com> wrote:
>   Is one gallon of paint enough to cover the hull of a 320? I found 
> no. An old salt at our marina said, "load the roller, roll it on once 
> forward once back and move on." This puts on a heavy coat. I used 
> about 1 1/4 gal. of blue Interlux Bottomcoat ACT over a coat of the 
> same paint in black. When we pulled & power washed last fall, much of 
> the top coat had ablated away; some spots showed the black base coat 
> below, and in a few spots all paint was gone, mostly on the leading 
> edges of bow, keel, and rudder. That justifies the recommendation to 
> apply two coats to these leading edges.
>
> Will one coat be enough for a color change from black to blue? Yes, at 
> least it was for me following the above "old salt" recommendations.
>
> Warren & Pattie Updike
> C320, #62, 1994, "Warr De Mar"
> Frog Mortar Creek, Middle River
> Chesapeake Bay
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