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Starting next week I am goingt to begin restoring the hull and topside. The hull has anti-fouling paint on it and the boat has a single coat from what I can tell of Interlux paint (seller told me he used Interlux). Do people ever strip and then sand or di I just go straight to sanding?
I ended up doing both but it probably depends on if you are going to re-gel or paint the hull again. I stripped 3 layers of bottom paint off with Franmar's Marine Soy Strip Gel then lightly sanded since I was trying to preserve the original gelcoat underneath. I tried sanding first with an 60 grit on an orbital sander and it was taking forever. I also tried grinding it off but I was afraid it was going to damage the gelcoat under the paint.
I also had some sort of non skid paint on my deck and started the same process but quickly found that the deck paint was hiding a ton of spider cracks so I ended up just grinding it all off and will be re-geloating the entire interior...
A few weeks ago I finished removing bottom paint from my latest montauk. I was able to remove all of it without sanding. I used the west marine brand paint remover , it indicated gelcoat safe. Used Two applications, scrapping what I could from each one. Third step is take acetone soaked rag and wipe what is left of the bottom paint, that took two passes also. The bottom looks great, they did not prep bottom before painting. Good luck !
