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Originally Posted by RidgeRunner (Post 219324)

X2 Leave it alone.. It is like putting seat covers on a pick-up truck. Who are you saving it for? Besides, the fish don't care.. I heed my own advice, my skiff has bare glass showing in many places.:nice:
That means it gets used...

Vic's right...let er be...even if it's still your 20 years from now, it'll be worth more w/no bottom paint on it...
:clap:

My boat is a bit beat looking, but I still think about painting it. It will happen at some point because gelcoat matching is difficult, I prefer two part paint.

Paint is easier to touch up, or even do a full repaint. I'm 5/6 done sanding my 46' sloop for a repaint. The first time my brother and I put in 12 man hours for two months fairing and painting it. It had many star cracks in the gelcoat from poor layup. This time it only needs about 8 -10 hours more work because the hull is so fair.

When it comes to small boats like this, why not, there is so little to do! I bet you could do in 20-25 hours. The hard part is finding a clean place to paint it.

I have mixed feelings on this though because it is so easy to wet sand gelcoat with 600 grit or 1200 and make it look pretty good. I might prefer to have all gelcoat even if some of it looked a bit off color. I hate working with gelcoat though because it seems to be all rework. With paint you make forward progress.