JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 37 (2000)- Decal colour code? bootline RAL colour?

[tom3987]

Hi,

Our bootline has some damage and the boat is currently on the hard. Ive just spent 5 days scraping back 24 years of antifouling and am about to redo it. The boat has 3 lines all the same blue but only 1 is damaged in several areas. I was hoping to replace this. I have been quoted £662 from a Jeanneau dealer in the UK. Ideally wanted to get this done while im doing the other jobs out the water.

I have contacted a couple of local sign shops who can do the vinyl but they would need to know the colour code, ideally the RAL colour.

Im hoping with them being a production boat they will be the same. Does anyone have this code or a very close match?

 

[seumask]

I have been patching the scrapes on our SO 37 with a dark blue that came off Ebay IIRC each winter for the last few years. I dont know the exact colour, and its not identical but from more than a few feet away you really cant tell. IMHO if you are replacing the lot a Navy blue would be fine. I notice that the line is not the same width all the way round and to do it properly you may end up with the high quote you have for the exact spec and shape.

Edit. I'm pretty sure having read post #9 I use the PSP coveline tape in Dark Blue

 

[Clancy Moped]

When the tape got really shabby we striped it off and painted it, same boat 2001 model.

 

[tom3987]

When the tape got really shabby we striped it off and painted it, same boat 2001 model.

Did it come off easy? I was thinking about using a heat gun but not sure with the gelcoat.

 

[tom3987]

I have been patching the scrapes on our SO 37 with a dark blue that came off Ebay IIRC each winter for the last few years. I dont know the exact colour, and its not identical but from more than a few feet away you really cant tell. IMHO if you are replacing the lot a Navy blue would be fine. I notice that the line is not the same width all the way round and to do it properly you may end up with the high quote you have for the exact spec and shape.

I was going to use 3m Knifeless Tape to get the same shape. Do you know if it needs to be special glue with it being near the waterline? A local sign shop said they would need a marine grade

 

[Clancy Moped]

Did it come off easy? I was thinking about using a heat gun but not sure with the gelcoat.

I got someone else to do it, he did a grand job it was all part of a hull polish prior to selling, I've seen her since and it held out very well.

 

[wonkywinch]

The original colour may have faded, so the best option would be to buy/borrow a RAL colour chart and match up in the daylight.

I'm in Hamble and can lend you one or they are usually less than £20 - https://amzn.to/3Rl9E0M

 

[ithet]

[Did it come off easy? I was thinking about using a heat gun but not sure with the gelcoat.]

I have taken stripes and lettering off. Used a hairdryer not a heat gun, and one of those window scrapers that hold a razor blade.

 

[lustyd]

I wouldn't bother with the codes, Coveline tape is generally available in only a few colours and I strongly doubt Jeanneau got a custom one made, it's not the way they operate. Even if they did, how would you get a custom colour made up?
Ebay and Amazon will sell you some extremely cheap, and Marinesuperstore have the quality PSP stuff which Jeanneau probably use for not much more. They only have dark blue and royal blue so my guess is yours is dark blue.

Coveline tape is sold under different names depending on industry. Boot top, Cove line, coach line, pin stripe, vinyl stripe are all the same stuff.

 

[WindyWindyWindy]

You will be amazed how poor a match you actually need. from a distance it's very hard to see.

Our navy boot stripe (also on a Jeanneau, but I don't think original) had loads of light blue touch ups that I had never noticed until the gaps started to bother me. You can just stick bits over and it can be quite hard to see.

For thinner stripes, only patch covering both sides. Use a wider piece and press a flexible metal ruler along the stripe edge and run a blade along the top and bottom edges to make it fit.

 

[Lightwave395]

My hull is sprayed with a dark blue Awlgrip, their name for the colour escapes me. I bought a touch up 'kit' which cost millions of pounds for a thimble full (£60 for 100ml I think), subsequently painted a small piece of aluminium with it which I took to a specialist car paint supplier who mixed me a 500ml pot for £30 and filled a 400ml aerosol for £20. I was quoted over £1000 for a 'marine' paint shop to do some small chips

 

[lustyd]

which I took to a specialist car paint supplier who mixed me a 500ml pot for £30

This is very different stuff though, so it's crazy to compare the two. Awlgrip is stronger than gelcoat and comes with an exceptionally long warranty for both the colour and the finish. Paint mixed by your car sprayer is just car paint.

If you're just looking to make something match then it doesn't matter and cheaper might be better, but that doesn't equate to Awlgrip being poor value. The high cost for a small quantity is likely due to the time of the professional mixing it rather than the raw cost of the paint itself. Usually you can get a pot of touch up thrown in when the hull spray is completed.

In any case, not quite sure what this paint rant has to do with vinyl tape

 

[tom3987]

Just in case anyone is looking for the colour code, I had a response from Jeanneau

'For the part number : 976827 the colour is "Blue 50-90" in 3m adhesive, corresponding to Pantone 648C, which is very similar to RAL 5013.'