Imperfections on Topsides

[gavin400]

My new boat has some quite distinctive blemishes in the topsides and rudder - almost as though something (e.g a fender) has rubbed through the gelcoat?
These blemishes are a different colour to the topsides and are not polishing out.

Any suggestions as to how I can restore this?
I don't want to paint the topsides, as they are still in reasonable condition
I am tentatively looking at vinyl wrap, but think it will be cost prohibitive and am not convinced it would stand up to fenders etc

Many thanks

Gavin

 

[johnalison]

It's certainly a funny colour. I can't see that there is much to lose by being very aggressive with it, say rubbing compound, or even sanding a section with 1200 wet and dry. Painting is going to be needed some time anyway, if you want to keep up appearances.

 

[jwilson]

Are you quite sure the main colour is gelcoat and not paint? The underlying blue looks very like the sort of aqua blue gelcoat quite popular in the 1970s/80s with some builders that went dull/chalky/faded fast, so most boats with that colour gel have mostly been painted by now.

http://www.yachtsnet.co.uk/archives/sailfish-25/w271104-ashore-stern.jpg is the sort of gelcoat colour I'm talking about....

 

[gavin400]

Are you quite sure the main colour is gelcoat and not paint? The underlying blue looks very like the sort of aqua blue gelcoat quite popular in the 1970s/80s with some builders that went dull/chalky/faded fast, so most boats with that colour gel have mostly been painted by now.

http://www.yachtsnet.co.uk/archives/sailfish-25/w271104-ashore-stern.jpg is the sort of gelcoat colour I'm talking about....

The underlying colour is light green - hard to tell from the photos
The main colour is definitely gelcoat - although there are areas that appear to have paint (starboard edge of transom, presumably to cover over a repair)

 

[Sinbad1951]

Looks like an early Fisher 25 and there are several which were produced with a turquoise gelcoat. I suspect the dark blue/black colour is paint and the original gelcoat is now showing through.

 

[gavin400]

Looks like an early Fisher 25 and there are several which were produced with a turquoise gelcoat. I suspect the dark blue/black colour is paint and the original gelcoat is now showing through.

The main colour is dark green, the underlying colour is light green