Posted by Sean Mulligan (quadmulligan@…>)
What I see done all the time is the entire bottom gets sanded/bottom
painted EXCEPT where it is on jack stands. Then right at launch,
while
the boat is in slings, a fellow runs under there with a roller and
hits the patches that didn’t get paint. Then it goes right in the
water. SOP down at the yard. The only “levitation” is via travel
lift -
which you probably don’t plan on since you are going to trailer-
launch. Just do the best you can and GET SAILING!
Sean
(PS - you should try to find out what brand/type of bottom paint is
on there now and stick with that or you could have problems with
dissimilar paints that don’t like each other)
— In freedom21@yahoogroups.com, “Max Lent” <maxlent@…> wrote:
I have my boat on a trailer and it needs ant-fouling paint on the
hull and everyone tells me that I should do it myself because it
is
easy. However, they haven’t told me how to levitate my boat above
the trailer to apply to the paint. My local boatyard charges $21
foot to apply the anti-fouling paint. What they want to do is to
lift the boat off the trailer with a crane and straps late in the
day, paint what they can and paint the remaining area the
following
morning early and then put the boat back on the trailer. The boat
yard is launching 35 boats a day at this time of year. I should
have done this last month or last fall. Live and learn.
Posted by pmonette@…> (pmonette@…>)
Where I am located, there are no boat yards within 70 miles so I have been
sanding/painting mine since I have owned the boat. I use VC paint which of
course drys fairly quickly.
I carefully use jack stands to support the boat and then lower the pads on the
trailer to sand/paint that area. What I cannot get to, I usually wait unitl the
boat is being lifted off the trailer during launch.
Paul M.
“Fancy Free” #128
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From: Sean Mulligan <quadmulligan@…>
Date: Thu Apr 13 10:34:02 CDT 2006
To: freedom21@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [freedom21] Bottom Paint
What I see done all the time is the entire bottom gets sanded/bottom
painted EXCEPT where it is on jack stands. Then right at launch,
while
the boat is in slings, a fellow runs under there with a roller and
hits the patches that didn’t get paint. Then it goes right in the
water. SOP down at the yard. The only “levitation” is via travel
lift -
which you probably don’t plan on since you are going to trailer-
launch. Just do the best you can and GET SAILING!
Sean
(PS - you should try to find out what brand/type of bottom paint is
on there now and stick with that or you could have problems with
dissimilar paints that don’t like each other)
— In freedom21@yahoogroups.com, “Max Lent” <maxlent@…> wrote:
I have my boat on a trailer and it needs ant-fouling paint on the
hull and everyone tells me that I should do it myself because it
is
easy. However, they haven’t told me how to levitate my boat above
the trailer to apply to the paint. My local boatyard charges $21
foot to apply the anti-fouling paint. What they want to do is to
lift the boat off the trailer with a crane and straps late in the
day, paint what they can and paint the remaining area the
following
morning early and then put the boat back on the trailer. The boat
yard is launching 35 boats a day at this time of year. I should
have done this last month or last fall. Live and learn.
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