Dimond
Member
Hi All,
I've got to do a bit of work on my paintwork before I launch in april, its very grimey and dull looking and i haven't painted scratches before and i'd like advice as to wheather I'm doing it right.
My boat is a light green with a band of white top and bottom. She broke a mooring early last season and was picked up by the river pilot and tied to a barge without fenders and was scratched along the top white band around the deck, about 1ft long. Durning storms at the end of last season a 45ft broke its moorning and bounced off my boat as it passed and marked my green paint work with its white rubber strip leaving white marks all along one side. This is the part I'm not sure of, I'm going to surround the scratches with masking tape and rub the area down with wet and dry fine sandpaper, clean with a oil/grease remover, paint on white paint, let it dry and re sand the area, repaint and resand again. I will then get a cutting compond and rub it on all over the paint work including the white rubber marks and polish off.
Is this the correct way to do the scratches, am I right in using a cutting compond, do I have to do it by hand, do i use a separate polish to polish it off, do i do this by hand, what products do i need, what tools do you recommend?
I've got to do a bit of work on my paintwork before I launch in april, its very grimey and dull looking and i haven't painted scratches before and i'd like advice as to wheather I'm doing it right.
My boat is a light green with a band of white top and bottom. She broke a mooring early last season and was picked up by the river pilot and tied to a barge without fenders and was scratched along the top white band around the deck, about 1ft long. Durning storms at the end of last season a 45ft broke its moorning and bounced off my boat as it passed and marked my green paint work with its white rubber strip leaving white marks all along one side. This is the part I'm not sure of, I'm going to surround the scratches with masking tape and rub the area down with wet and dry fine sandpaper, clean with a oil/grease remover, paint on white paint, let it dry and re sand the area, repaint and resand again. I will then get a cutting compond and rub it on all over the paint work including the white rubber marks and polish off.
Is this the correct way to do the scratches, am I right in using a cutting compond, do I have to do it by hand, do i use a separate polish to polish it off, do i do this by hand, what products do i need, what tools do you recommend?
