Bottom Painting Feedback

[windknotnc]

Ok, my 23DVCC has a couple coats of bottom paint and is in need of a recoating or something else. I have talked with Alex Nitt in Morehead City at Carolina Soda Blast. They use a Farrow System to remove bottom paint. Since I keep the boat on a trailer under shelter I really don't need bottom paint but that ship has sailed. He has recommended Interlux VC Performance Epoxy on the bottom. I have read good things about this paint but it only comes in white. Does anyone have this on their bottom? Can you post a picture of the look of the boat with cream topside and white bottom. I cannot envision this. Their rate is $30/ft to remove and $40/ft to apply 5 coats of VC. Looks like around $1600 to do the boat. How does this price sound? Any other recommendations appreciated.

 

[TWOBOATER]

That's a good price for removal but you shouldn't need to strip that bottom with only a "couple of coats" of bottom paint on it. The VC paint is a nice hard finish but not very good anti-fouling. If you want real white (or any other color) bottom paint I would recommend Petit Vivid white. It's a pretty hard paint as well. You can also mix the pallet of Vivid color choices for any variation. I think the off-white VC will look shabby next to you gelcoat. better to go with a whiter white or a contrasting color, IMHO...

 

[Megabyte]

If you are trailering, and replacing a formerly painted bottom, soda blasting and repainting with a hard bottom (versus an ablative) is probably your best bet.
Color choice is up to you.

 

[windknotnc]

The Interlux VC Epoxy only comes in white. What other hard finish bottom paint would you recommend? How do you think a white bottom would look on the cream colored hull?

 

[Megabyte]

The only white bottom that I have seen was an ablative one.
The 5" or so at the water line that was exposed to water and air turned green (from the copper).
It wasn't pretty.

 

[windknotnc]

Fortunately this is an epoxy coat so no ablation

 

[THEGAME]

you can always do the bottom in the vc and paint the water line with a color paint i have seen this on big sport fish boats colored bottom and black water line and transom up to u

 

[TWOBOATER]

The Interlux VC Epoxy only comes in white. What other hard finish bottom paint would you recommend? How do you think a white bottom would look on the cream colored hull?

PETIT VIVID is a hard bottom paint recommended for trailered boats. You can mix different colors of this paint to match your gelcoat perfectly. Buy a gallon of white and add a bit from a quart of yellow and you're good to go.