Boat Painted Awlcraft Seafoam Green
Before Painting Hull
Sailboat Painted Awlcraft Royal Blue
Before Painting Hull
Sailboat Painted Awlcraft Snow White
Sailboat Before Painting
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It’s a Science and an Art!
Painting a boat correctly is an expensive multi-stage process that takes a lot of time. The first step in boat painting is deciding if the boat should be painted. Restoring the gelcoat might be a better option. The second step is deciding if you are willing to pay the financial cost of having it painted properly. I can help you with the first step, not with the second. Producing a cosmetically impressive paint coating that will last for decades is expensive!
It takes years of learning and experience to develop the skillsets required to produce a high quality paint application. Anyone whom can accomplish this has done it many times before. They won’t do it again for a low price. Half of the painting process consists of grueling back-breaking sanding.
A high quality paint job on a canoe costs thousands of dollars. Painting a small flat hull from waterline to rub rail might only cost a few thousand. Painting a topside with many horizontal and vertical surfaces and compartments with lids and a center console and non-skid and cracks and dings and scratches to repair and hardware to remove and re-install and electronics to remove and re-install is expensive!
I’ve accomplished several high quality marine paint applications in the past. What I learned painting boats is that painting boats isn’t very profitable. It takes so much time to do things correctly, that you can probably find another used boat in decent shape for what it will cost to perform a high quality full topside paint application.