[C320-list] Evercoat One Step Finish Gel-Kote vs. Interlux Brightside

[Dave Hupe]

Chris-
I am not sure about your post.  Did you roughly replicate the diamond pattern within your repair area with your rasp/file?  Was this area small so that such an approach worked?
Thanks,Dave Hupe1994 (#32)

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  On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:34 AM, Chris Burti<clburti at gmail.com> wrote:   I did exactly what Dave recommended and was able to get a perfect color
match on the first try. I was repairing a void that had broken through in
the non-skid. I taped off the area I was working on and used the edge of a
flat rasp to cut out the non-skid diamonds before the gelocat fully
hardened and then smoothed them out with 1000 grit wet /dry on a sanding
block after it had fully hardened.

Fair Winds,
Chris Burti
Commitment #867
Farmville, NC


On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:06 PM Dave Hupe <hoopdtwo at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would suggest instead trying to use white finish gelcoat from West
> Marine and try to blend your own color using black tint to get a grey.  You
> can afford to waste a lot at that cost to get the color you want.
> Dave Hupe1994 (#32)
>
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>
>  On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 7:42 PM, Michael Leschisin<
> mleschisin at imagestudios.com> wrote:  Has anyone found a direct color
> match source for patching the gray non-skid gel coat? (Mine is 2004). I
> have not found anything on the Catalina direct site, I checked with
> Spectrum Color but their minimum order for it would be a full quart at
> around $100 plus crazy shipping cost.  I have about four dime size nicks I
> would like to take care of so I think it will take me 25 years to use a
> full quart.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Leschisin
> Wild Blue Yonder
> #995
> Menominee, MI
>
>
> > On Jun 9, 2021, at 9:47 AM, Timothy Woods <woodstimothya at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have a 1996 and fixed all my Nick's with Spectrum color matching
> gelcoat
> > past. The color was really close and wasn't hard to work with.
> >
> > Tim
> > Hull #375
> >
> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, 11:53 AM Louis Spitz <aronella at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> My 1995 boat has multiple ‘dings’ that need to be refinished. Any
> thoughts
> >> on Evercoat Gel-Kote vs. Interlux Brightside, with & without primer
> >> pre-kote?
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> Lou Spitz
> >> 1995 C320 Merry Chase
> >>
> >>
>
>