[alberg30] Re: Props >> AWLGRIP

[sunstone]

From: sunstone <sunstone at idirect.com>

Lee: 
Ya can't submerge Awlgrip or any other paint that I know of.

Most people with 'grip jobs raise the water line as being near it is
enough to blister polyu paints.

If the boat has a lot of chalking and a compounding won't work then you
have to paint, but if you can avoid it gelcoat is the more wear
resistant.

Take care,

J Birch, Sunstone

FINNUS505 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> From: FINNUS505 at aol.com
> 
> Hi Jack,
>   I read with great interest your problem with blisters on the boot top from
> submersion.  Stargazer had sat unattended for a while before I bought her, and
> the scum line was above the boot top, and the boot top had blisters.  When we
> hauled her, much to my dismay, I found the white awlgrip of the boot top just
> peeled away nearly effortlessly, down to what looked like the epoxy sealing
> coat.  the navy blue topside paint was solid, (though it is so scratched in
> places we are going to have to redo it someday.)  I thought the peeling of the
> boot top just indicated that the painter just hadn't done a good enough job of
> removing the wax from the epoxy after curing, and so it never had good
> adhesion, but have you heard of a different phenomenon?
>   My temporary solution was to raise the bottom paint to the top of the boot
> top. Our Harbor, Hempstead Harbor, on Long Island Sound, is so filthy, that
> white boot tops have to be scrubbed weekly, or they turn green black from oil
> and a very tenacious algae that grows in while you watch.  Dangling from the
> dinghy once a week and scrubbing has lost its appeal!!
>   What is your solution,
>    Lee Trachtenberg
>    Stargazer #255
> 
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