[Public-List] Painting below water line

[John Boor]

Dwayne.

Having gone this far continue to scrape down to gel coat.  This way you
will get the best adhesion.  As an extra consider a barrier coat before
the Micron CSC.

John Boor

> I started to sand the bottom paint this year in preparation of a couple of
> new coats and noticed some areas that there was adhesion failure.  I began
> scraping and found that there was a general adhesion failure.  I have
> scraped about 1/2 the boat and find that ~10% scrapes all the way to the
> gel coat in various spots with the remainder being covered by what look
> like 1-2 coats of an unknown paint type that appears to adhere reasonably
> well. I purchased Micron CSC (fresh water boat), before I discovered
> adhesion failure, which is supposed to be compatible with a wide variety
> of paints.  My questions are whether it is best to just sand and paint as
> is, or would it be better to sand all the way down to the gel coat and
> start fresh?  Should I do anything extra to protect the exposed gel coat?
>   If I sanded all the way to the gel coat could I do more damage than
> good?  Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Dwayne
> #94
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