Starting to look at paint for my rebuild. I dont want to use anti-fouling bottom paint but am having a hard time getting a straight answer on what other paint to use below the waterline. Seems everything I read, they all say something different. My boat will be trailered, but I would like to have the option to keep the boat in the water for a few days if needed. So, what paint is good to use below the waterline?
If you don't have bottom paint now think of the negatives before you do it, like reduced speed and gph, I keep my boat in the water from time to time with no ill effects, usually a week at a time during the summer, but if your going to leave in in for weeks on end then I understand, just throwing this out there.
Not to derail.... well this is a bottom paint thread. Marc, how did you go about removing your bottom paint? I'd like to remove the bottom paint on my 245 to gain some speed but mainly save some gas $$$. Of course I would like to do this without damaging the gel coat. It has two coats of regular old bottom paint on it now and it's flaking off in some spots. Where it is flaking off I can tell it looks like whoever put on the first coat of paint didn't sand the gel coat since it is shinny underneath. While waxing the boat last week I decided to try and remove some paint from the trim tabs. I hard that Easy Off oven cleaner will remove bottom paint but all I had was a can of the odorless type. I sprayed some on one of the tabs and let it set a few minutes. Then I hit it with a scraper.... and the paint came off! So I sprayed the other tab and a spot of the hull... Did better on the tab than the hull still it worked similar to any paint remover I have used... I'll bet the regular stinky kind would work better.
