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Gelcoat repair and painting a hull repair


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Hi,

I am currently finishing some winter restoration jobs on my trailer sailer Farr 6000. I have 2 main questions:

  1. Painting a repair to hull: I had to repair the hull with some Ados Marine filler (photo attached... still need finish sanding!). I went to Burnsco to buy some paint. They adviced 3 different types of paints to apply: 1st primer, 2nd undercoat, 3rd topcoat yellow. Since I am only fixing a patch and my boat does not have a very flash paint job on the hull, do I really need to apply these 3 different coats? I defiitely need the topcoat as the hull is bright yellow. But could I go straight from primer to topcoat? How many coats of each??
  2. Gelcoat repair: since it is an old boat, I have quite a few patches of the deck gelcoat that need some repairs. I have been advised to apply some Ados Marine filler (Vinylester), sand it to a smooth finish once dry and paint over it since the filler is pink (see photos of my repairs). The thing is I feel that every patch of paint will be very visible by contrast with the old gelcoat next to it... Should I instead look at applying some gelcoat with a brush or a small roller? Is there a way to match the original gel coat colour or at least close to?

I have attached a few photos to illustrate my questions.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Damien

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cockpit gelcoat 2.jpg

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hull.jpg

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Thank you all for your suggestions.

Hull was pretty badly painted by previous owner. I ended up doing a few coats of undercoats and then the yellow top coats with a yellow that does not match at all the hull colour. I think the next step would be to repaint entirely the hull to do a decent job.

Matching colour from the auto paint shop is a great idea I am keeping.

Thank you again.

Damien

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