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I picked up a 1977 15' Whaler which had a few exposed holes from various battery mounts/cupholders etc. I filled these with polyester resin and I am now left with dark polka dots. Unfortunately the previous owner also did a poor job of painting the boat. The optimal method of fixing this would be sanding the whole boat down and repainting but since that is not going to happen, I was wondering which kind of paint you would recommend to spot fix my minor repairs. Each hole is no bigger than a penny. Thank you.

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I used Interlux Brightsides to paint my 13 footer it is a good quality single part marine paint. Available on line and locally like at West Marine.

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I wouldn't use paint, I'd use some color-matched gel coat patch paste. $25 for little Spectrum kit is all you need.

A 1977 15' Whaler will use Desert Tan for the inside and Outrage Grey on the outside, though fading and age will have changed the original color a bit.

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Tom, are you sure, my 1986 15 footer in Desert Tan on the interior and the exterior. That's a fact becuase although the interior was painted when I bought it, I stripped some paint off the console, cut out a sample from the stripped piece had my local Awlgrip dealer match the sample. Then I bought 2 quarts from the sample and sprayed the interior. The match is so close to the original gel coat on the exterior, that I used some of the paint with a small brush to touch up a couple of marks on the exterior and they disappeared.
On this boat in question, the interior was previously painted, so who knows what color it is. Best thing to do is to bring the hatch cover down to Lowe's and they can match that to a qt. of their marine paint.. I'm not recommending that he paint the whole interior with that paint but for touch ups it should be OK.

Don't use gel coat to try to match paint.

rich

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A 1986 15 footer is Desert Tan both in and out.

Whaler stopped using Outrage Grey for the hull exteriors after 1983.

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Whoops, I jumped the gun. I should read more carefully, I thought his boat was a 1987. Sorry

rich

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Lowes carries marine paint?

Did you shoot it out of an HVLP gun?

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How hard is it use gelcoat from spectrum to spot paint? I find the thickened paste is to thick to just paint over the resin...

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Keven, Lowe's sells Rustoleum "marine" paint . Al least that's what is says on the can. I used the primer and the gloss white top coat to paint the wooden plywood seats on an antique fiberglass runabout I restored a couple of years ago. It still looks good, of course the boat is only used a half dozen times a year, and it is kept covered and inside. I used a brush, but it could be sprayed by any type of spraygun.
It may not be be illegal and it sure is immoral to paint a Whaler with Rustoleum. To go through all the prep work necessary to get a boat ready for paint and not use a top quality 2 part poly paint doesn't make sense just to save a couple hundred dollars and then do it all over again every year.

rich

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Keven, you might want to read this article we have on filling holes.
http://www.whalercentral.com/articles...icle_id=62

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I won't be painting the whole boat, just a few dime size spots where I filled in the previous owner's holes. It won't be perfect but certainly look better than as it sits. I am only keeping the boat for another month or so until my other boat (which was just repainted with Alexseal) is up and running again. Thanks for the help everyone!