What a difference 4 months makes.

[Chessie246G]

First picture is the day is what delivered. The second is this past weekend. Still have a little plumbing and wiring to finish up. Hopefully by father's day she will be at the marina.
All new thru hulls, scuppers, hoses, new bilge pumps, washdown pump, relocated water pickups to bilge, ton of repairs to the bottom, removed 30 years of bottom paint, faired and painted with VC Performance. Emblems and stripes removed. Total detail, removed heavy oxidation, buffed polished and waxed.

 

[Fishtales]

Looking great.

 

[trapper]

Like an brand new yacht!!!

 

[Don Davis]

How hard was it to remove the bottom paint? It’s something I would like to do to my Seafarer in the next few years, thanks.

 

[Chessie246G]

How hard was it to remove the bottom paint? It’s something I would like to do to my Seafarer in the next few years, thanks.

A holy living P.I.A!!!! Literally took me over a month working every weekend and a few nights a week, or as much as my body would allow. Hand scraper to get the really thick stuff followed by 36 grit random orbital sander down to gelcoat.

Make sure you use the proper safety gear. Tyvek suit, good respirator, gloves and face shield. Everything was coated in black dust when I was done, everything!
Hindsight, I would never do it again. It would have been worth the 2k to have it soda blasted.... but it was winter here and didn't really have anything else to do.

 

[SmokyMtnGrady]

Awesome

 

[Chessie246G]

Like an brand new yacht!!!

Thanks buddy. Still have to go over again with the buffer and some polish. Few spots didn't gloss up enough, for my liking, but I'm super happy with how it turned out.

 

[Don Davis]

Hmmm thanks for the advice, there is a ship yard north of me, I think I will get a quote from them when I’m ready to move ahead with removing the anti fouling paint.

 

[Sdfish]

all I can say is WOW!!! Beautiful outcome, enjoy the season!

 

[Ekea]

A holy living P.I.A!!!! Literally took me over a month working every weekend and a few nights a week, or as much as my body would allow. Hand scraper to get the really thick stuff followed by 36 grit random orbital sander down to gelcoat.

Make sure you use the proper safety gear. Tyvek suit, good respirator, gloves and face shield. Everything was coated in black dust when I was done, everything!
Hindsight, I would never do it again. It would have been worth the 2k to have it soda blasted.... but it was winter here and didn't really have anything else to do.

It looks like it still has bottom paint though. It looks like white from the chine down. or am i seeing things?

 

[Hookup1]

The boat looks terrific! I'm planning on a total makeover for my boat including repainting.

I have a storage customer with a large center console that has a white painted bottom. It's not a perfectly clean bottom but its looks pretty good. Something I might do to mine.

 

[Legend]

Looks great and a great Father's Day gift

 

[Paul_A]

That is an amazing transformation. You should be proud of your efforts. Now get her bloody!!!

 

[deepdesire]

Great job, she looks fantastic. Now go enjoy her.

 

[PointedRose]

Nice work

 

[Chessie246G]

It looks like it still has bottom paint though. It looks like white from the chine down. or am i seeing things?

Interlux VC Performance Epoxy. Hard bottom paint. No way was the gelcoat being saved.

 

[Ekea]

Interlux VC Performance Epoxy. Hard bottom paint. No way was the gelcoat being saved.

did you do it yourself? how easy was it? i may be picking up a boat with partially removed black and would like to do something like this instead

this really seems like it would be the best of both worlds, the looks and "effeciency" of no bottom paint, but the protection of paint...

 

[Ekea]

did you do it yourself? how easy was it? i may be picking up a boat with partially removed black and would like to do something like this instead. ive never seen a shiny bottom paint, does it hold up as well as traditional bottom paint?

this really seems like it would be the best of both worlds, the looks and "effeciency" of no bottom paint, but the protection of paint...

 

[Chessie246G]

this really seems like it would be the best of both worlds, the looks and "effeciency" of no bottom paint, but the protection of paint...

Vc performance application was really easy. Low nap rollers. Clean them with some masking tape before you start applying. You have to time the recoats. After 4 hours and before 24 hours. It's not glass smooth. If you want a glass smooth finish it can be wet sanded. I didn't bother. Looks much better than it did.
I ordered the 2 gallon kit. 1 gallon each of paint and activator. Only used little more than a gallon with 5 coats. It goes on pretty thin.

Right now it's hard as nails.

 

[Ekea]

i think i found it on west marines site. is what you applied the non-antifouling?