There's a line from one of the Matrix movies. "You cannot know someone until you fight them".
Well, you cannot know your boat until (in my case) you sand away 25 years of bottom paint, all the way down to a blotchy applique of epoxy barrier coat and bare gelcoat - plus a few just-added epoxy fixes and fairings.
A quick question, though. Paint the bottom and then the boot stripe, or the boot stripe and then the bottom?
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When To Paint The Bootstripe
If you are careful, I suppose that it doesn't matter much which you paint first.
I usually mask and paint the bootstripe first. I don't want to lose the edges. After it cures good and hard, then I tape over it and then do the bottom.
I try to take pains with the bootstripe. Then I can slosh the bottom after everything else is done.
Think spring,
O J
I usually mask and paint the bootstripe first. I don't want to lose the edges. After it cures good and hard, then I tape over it and then do the bottom.
I try to take pains with the bootstripe. Then I can slosh the bottom after everything else is done.
Think spring,
O J