best one pot hull paint

[dylanwinter]

Does anyone have any suggestions for easy to apply one pot hull paint

for the first time in my life I might be able to choose the hull colour

so I am open to suggestions

is yellow a stoopid colour for a boat?

it will be a 26 footer and I expect the sails to be what the makers call mottled off white

and if anyone has any suggestions for ways of avoiding drips - I am awfully good at making those

D

 

[ianfr]

Dylan

I have painted 2 of my boats with Sandtex Extra Flex gloss. Available in a range of colours. Available from proper builders merchants.

Hard wearing, can be painted on at 5 degrees centigrade and about half to two thirds the cost of Toplac etc.

My last boat is still shiny and smart after 6 years.

Regards

Ian

 

[pvb]

and if anyone has any suggestions for ways of avoiding drips - I am awfully good at making those

I've helped a friend paint a wooden hull - one of us putting the paint on quickly with an ordinary brush; the other following behind, laying off the paint with a foam brush. Seems to work quite well. Oh, and no drips or runs!

 

[Reptile Smile]

I'm using this ATM and have been really impressed with the price and quality...

 

[prv]

is yellow a stoopid colour for a boat?

It's always been the notional colour for my fantasy long-distance liveaboard.

White is boring
Dark blue looks smart, but too hot in the tropics
Light blue looks like a 70s bathroom suite
Black is nice on traditional (-style) boats, but even worse heat problem obviously
Green is traditionally unlucky
Red looks ok, but darker shades are warm (as for blue and black) and lighter ones veer dangerously close to pink, especially after a little fading in the sun which I think red paint is particularly prone to.

Solid yellow looks nice (I think), is almost as cool as white (the Mollymawks tested it in the African sun) and is easy to see as well. Tilman's Mischief was painted yellow for at least one of her Arctic voyages, plus the aforementioned Molly which I always think looks right for an ocean wanderer (see http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/ ).

All that said, I'm not sure I can quite picture a yellow Centaur.

Pete

 

[lw395]

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is yellow a stoopid colour for a boat?

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D

Yes.

I think the best paint is whatever suits your painting style.
Best result I've had was Dulux trade put on with a foam 'jenny brush'

Top tip, a go faster stripe along the topsides cuts them into two manageable areas.

Follow my advice at your (yellow) peril.

 

[dylanwinter]

I've helped a friend paint a wooden hull - one of us putting the paint on quickly with an ordinary brush; the other following behind, laying off the paint with a foam brush. Seems to work quite well. Oh, and no drips or runs!

This is most wonderful - I can slop it on and blame Jill who will be following with a foam brush

like this you mean

and

has anyone else tried Ian's paint?

D

 

[JumbleDuck]

Does anyone have any suggestions for easy to apply one pot hull paint

I've used Toplac three times now without any problems. I've been getting progressively better at applying it, too.

is yellow a stoopid colour for a boat?

It depends entirely on the boat. I started stripping my wee Hunter back to the gelcoat in order to paint her dark green, found a layer of yellow undercoat under the nasty mustard top coat, liked it, and went bright yellow instead.

If this is about a Centaur, I think yellow could look quite good. Anything but booooooooooooooooring white!

 

[pvb]

This is most wonderful - I can slop it on and blame Jill who will be following with a foam brush

like this you mean

That's the thing.

 

[markhomer]

International toplac , well worth the cost in many ways .

 

[pvb]

If this is about a Centaur, I think yellow could look quite good. Anything but booooooooooooooooring white!

Centaurs look lovely in dark green (guess which colour my Centaur was!)

 

[PCUK]

Toplac is not much easier to apply than two-pack but without the fantastic gloss so I'd never use that again. As already said Dulux takes a lot beating for finish and durability. I tend to use paint pads now as they give a great finish and cover a much larger area than Jenny brushes. 'Fit for the Job' pads are the ones I use.

 

[prv]

has anyone else tried Ian's paint?

I haven't, but I've seen recommendations for it from several other people, and I think there was also a PBO article a few years back which gave it the thumbs up.

If you're tarting up a cheap Centaur for a year or two's jaunt round the jaggy bits, rather than restoring a classic wooden 40-footer, cheaper masonry paint seems like the right stuff for the job.

Pete

 

[chrishelen]

I used Toplac on my hull this Spring,I washed and de greased the hull first,keyed, then washed it again, it went on very easily with a roller and tipped off with a good brush,i was very happy with the finish, like glass, but not very hard wearing.every knock of a pontoon makes it mark.
Two pack next time, but not sure if you can paint two pack onto single pack.

 

[prv]

not sure if you can paint two pack onto single pack.

Conventional wisdom is that you can't; the stronger solvents in the two-pack eat the single-pack and the whole lot falls off

Pete

 

[JumbleDuck]

Centaurs look lovely in dark green (guess which colour my Centaur was!)

All boats - just about - look good in dark green or black, and I agree that that includes the Centaur. I wasn't so keen on the brighter green one which was on the front of YM (or was it PBO) recently.

 

[Vara]

My Mirror dinghy which was re painted in 1985 with Dulux gloss is still looking pretty respectable after about 10 subsequent owners, it was a surprise to see it still lurking about in the corner of a club boat park last year. The internal woodwork which IIRC was done with a Ronseal wood stain was a bit shabby though.

 

[simonfraser]

My boat is yellow, excellent color
Some white bits, toplac. May not be so hard as two pack, but easier to apply.
Never gona be perfectly clean, so not fussed over a perfect finish.

 

[30boat]

Don't use red paint.I was told once by someone at Ancasta that red boats are very hard to sell.Having said that I once bought one...

 

[ImSteve]

I've used Toplac three times now without any problems. I've been getting progressively better at applying it, too.



It depends entirely on the boat. I started stripping my wee Hunter back to the gelcoat in order to paint her dark green, found a layer of yellow undercoat under the nasty mustard top coat, liked it, and went bright yellow instead.
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If this is about a Centaur, I think yellow could look quite good. Anything but booooooooooooooooring white!

Its about time you got rid of the little un ... I'm sure I could find it a nice caring home