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On my wee 18footer, I have painted the interior lockers with Danboline, then I painted a bit of fibreglass with it, and thought, that looks good. So then I painted the quarter berth and all the grp moulding on show in the small cabin that is visible once bunks are back in. It does look so much brighter and fresher.

I'm now casting a baleful gaze over the cockpit and deck grp outwith deckpaint, and thinking, " that would look so much better for a coat of Danboline!"

Is it a reasonable thing to do or just plain stupid??

My fingers are twitching towards the paint tray, tell me I'm going to far and to get on with one of the many other more productive jobs I need to finish :)
The pic is an old one and the blue has been redone (though its getting a colour change but thats another story), it does show the grp areas though I'm eyeing up.
 

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steve yates said:
On my wee 18footer, I have painted the interior lockers with Danboline, then I painted a bit of fibreglass with it, and thought, that looks good. So then I painted the quarter berth and all the grp moulding on show in the small cabin that is visible once bunks are back in. It does look so much brighter and fresher.

I'm now casting a baleful gaze over the cockpit and deck grp outwith deckpaint, and thinking, " that would look so much better for a coat of Danboline!"

Is it a reasonable thing to do or just plain stupid??

My fingers are twitching towards the paint tray, tell me I'm going to far and to get on with one of the many other more productive jobs I need to finish :)
The pic is an old one and the blue has been redone (though its getting a colour change but thats another story), it does show the grp areas though I'm eyeing up.
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Its abit glossy and wil be too slippery when wet uless you add sometng to make it nonslip

Intedeck is my choice
 
steve yates said:
Aye I wondered if it might make wet grp even slippier. Interdeck? so do you paint your grp apart from the non slip areas? or is that what you use on your non slip?
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I painted just the slightly raised and patterned areas.
First time around I used a very light silver grey but that was NLA when I did it for the second time. I dont like the new colour half as much.
I think Hempel's light grey is closer to my original colour

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Ah ok, yes thats what I have already done, although I will change the colour as I didnt do a very good job and it needs redoing again already.

I was actually thinking about painting the remaining grp with the danboline, so in your pic that would be around the edges of the blue, and the cockpit sides etc.
 
I'm experimenting with Sandtex products - less than half the price of their marine equivalents. My Sandtex masonry paint non slip deck areas have stood up well. 3rd anniversay and great grip though starting to show dirt that won't wash off. But not as badly as the Kiwigrip I did my cockpit in.

I also have a 2.5L tin of Sandtex Trade Exterior Gloss (presumably the same as their 10 Year Exterior Gloss more widely available). I did a couple of removable pieces recently and it seems tough (and takes a couple of days to dry hard!) But its so ferociously brilliant white that it would make the rest of my 40 year old yellowing gelcoat look really bad. And if I did all of the deck and cockpit gelcoat in it, it would make the topsides look dowdy. So I might wait and get a new tin mixed up to a more subdued hue.
 
Danbolin is essentially a bilge paint, but as far as I know it can be used anywhere. The obvious no go area is decks as you are not going to get much grippo in the wetty slippy slido.
 
Danboline is a basic alkyd paint that was mainly used as a topsides finish on commercial ships by International. A real workhorse product that sold in vastly larger volumes than the little that went into tins marked Danboline. It's been largely superseded by more modern products now but it's virtues of good adhesion, good opacity along with decent gloss and colour retention are still the same. What it isn't good at is abrasion resistance so it won't last so well if you're walking on it. It will also be slippery unless you put some kind of aggregate in it. Interdeck and the various equivalents would be much better in my opinion for wear areas.
 
Coming back to this, remember its for what has always been bare grp, coamings, cockpit sides etc. The decks are now being painted with white sandtex and sure enough, the grp looks horribly yellowed and old in comparison.

So I was thinking danboline with some fine builders sand mixed into it, but then I started wondering about trying e flowcoat on itt, when someone else told me its really difficult to work with, and that a two pack white would be easier and give a nice bright finish.

Anyone ever tried bringing their bare grp back to life with two pack paint?
 
steve yates said:
I was thinking danboline with some fine builders sand mixed into it,
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The other suggestion I've heard is to use sugar for the grip. Builders sand is nasty abrasive stuff (and you'll regret it when removing the paint). But the idea of the sugar is that the exposed bits dissolve at the first rain, still leaving a textured surface.
Caveat: I've never done this!
 
Black Sheep said:
The other suggestion I've heard is to use sugar for the grip. Builders sand is nasty abrasive stuff (and you'll regret it when removing the paint). But the idea of the sugar is that the exposed bits dissolve at the first rain, still leaving a textured surface.
Caveat: I've never done this!
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With thousands of little cavities to hold every spec of dirt or seagull shyte that lands on it?
 
steve yates said:
On my wee 18footer, I have painted the interior lockers with Danboline, then I painted a bit of fibreglass with it, and thought, that looks good. So then I painted the quarter berth and all the grp moulding on show in the small cabin that is visible once bunks are back in. It does look so much brighter and fresher.

I'm now casting a baleful gaze over the cockpit and deck grp outwith deckpaint, and thinking, " that would look so much better for a coat of Danboline!"

Is it a reasonable thing to do or just plain stupid??

My fingers are twitching towards the paint tray, tell me I'm going to far and to get on with one of the many other more productive jobs I need to finish :)
The pic is an old one and the blue has been redone (though its getting a colour change but thats another story), it does show the grp areas though I'm eyeing up.
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How good is it re UV?
 
KREW2 said:
Kiln dried sand mixed with paint is a way to go, but What is wrong with International Interdeck?
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Next time Ian is passing Loch Aline ask him to get you a bucket of that lovely sharp silver glass making sand that the Italians are extracting and washing just beside the pontoons.
 
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