Painting your sailboats topsides with polyurethane
August 13th, 2008 by ozesailorIf you decide to paint your topsides, you’re starting a fairly big job no matter how big your boat is.
If you decide to paint the topsides yourself, you should know that you’ll spend 80% of your time preparing the hull for painting and 20% of your time actually painting. So, having spent all that time on preparation, it seems reasonable that you should use the best possible finish you can.
And 2-part polyurethane is the product to use
You do have an alternative - you can pay a professional $200-$300 per foot ($825-$1000
per metre) to do the job for you.
Up until recently two-part polyurethane was the preserve of the professionals.
But today many paint manufacturers including are producing two-part polyurethane’s that they say are suitable for application by the roller and brush method. That is, suitable for painters like you and me.
Interlux as it is known in the US, has a product called Perfection which has been produced specifically for non-professional painters using the roller and brush method of application. By all accounts painters like you and I can achieve excellent results with this product as long as we followed the directions for preparation and painting outlined in their technical bulletin
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