mikenfi
Member
Hello all,
Im back with another problem on my 43 year old sabe 27! This time its only cosmetic. Our topside is looking rather tired. We can jet yeash her and scrub her and she looks good alothough we can see that there are some stains on deck here and there. In addition this old boat is geing to be in the med very soon and i think the high temperatures and solar rays may start to make the deck deteriorate further. SO we are looking to make here look good and protect her from the solar rays.
I have never painted the topsides of a boat before. Im rather good at reconditioning hulls though. Could anyone reccomend a hardwearing topcoat and primer if necessary that is easy to apply and not going to flake off to quickly. I can see that they boat has has something like this done in the past as they simply painted over the name before they changed it...(i can still see the protuding letters) I would say that this was done around 15-20 years ago as that is around the time the name of the boat was changed to something unlucky before being changed back to her original name by the third owner, which we have kept as the 4th owners of this 40+ year old boat.
The deck os our sabre is GRP with a crisscross grip all over, So I guess I would need something not to thick otherwise I would loose my grip all round the boat, although I understand this can be rectified with some specific same in the paint.
Looking forward to your help.
thanks
Im back with another problem on my 43 year old sabe 27! This time its only cosmetic. Our topside is looking rather tired. We can jet yeash her and scrub her and she looks good alothough we can see that there are some stains on deck here and there. In addition this old boat is geing to be in the med very soon and i think the high temperatures and solar rays may start to make the deck deteriorate further. SO we are looking to make here look good and protect her from the solar rays.
I have never painted the topsides of a boat before. Im rather good at reconditioning hulls though. Could anyone reccomend a hardwearing topcoat and primer if necessary that is easy to apply and not going to flake off to quickly. I can see that they boat has has something like this done in the past as they simply painted over the name before they changed it...(i can still see the protuding letters) I would say that this was done around 15-20 years ago as that is around the time the name of the boat was changed to something unlucky before being changed back to her original name by the third owner, which we have kept as the 4th owners of this 40+ year old boat.
The deck os our sabre is GRP with a crisscross grip all over, So I guess I would need something not to thick otherwise I would loose my grip all round the boat, although I understand this can be rectified with some specific same in the paint.
Looking forward to your help.
thanks