Painting Over Gelcoat

Unlike wood fiberglass surfaces are nonporous making them unsuitable for spray paint adhesion.

Painting over gelcoat.

Thanks for the reply. For smaller surface areas like a chair apply the gelcoat using a paintbrush using short vertical strokes. The color is also the same. And gelcoat over large areas is a ton of sanding not fun.

I am painting over an old 10 years awlgrip paint job. With a bit of work and a fair amount of care you can achieve your goal. So the gelcoat on your boat is looking chalky and faded. Like any painting project preparation is the key and in this case you will be painting over the slick shiny surface of gelcoat.

If so then it s time to think about refinishing the gelcoat. As for the core i m not sure what you mean. Sounds like what i m looking for. One is just in front of the stern seat and the other four are equally spaced to just aft of the bow seat.

Yes you can apply gelcoat over a surface that s already covered with gelcoat. What it has are five ribs about 3 wide. I ll look into the interlux paint. You ve cleaned compounded and waxed and it looks good for a while but the chalkiness returns maybe the red accent stripe that used to look so good looks pink or the dark blue bootstripe is now baby blue.

Not only do you want the paint job to look good you want to preserve that shiny gelcoat like surface. Do i need to prime it if the under original coat is pretty good.