The best tape to use to get a sharp line is green Frog Tape. It's available at Home Depot.
Alan Bergen On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:50 AM Rick Brass via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > I had Imzadi painted in the early spring of 2017 - almost exactly 3 years > ago. On the recommendation of the guy who does most of th ework I can't do > myself, we used Alexseal 2-part paint. Alexseal is an alternative to > Awlgrip or Imron. William reports very good results, and uses it for most > of the paintwork he does. Comes on a pretty wide range of colors, one of > which was a bit darker than the faded smoke white of Imzadi's hull and > might be a close match to the original C&C color. One big advantage of the > Alexseal paint is that it is about half the cost of Awlgrip. My cost for > getting the boat prepped and painted (white topsides, triple red boot > stripe, red cove stripe, red transom) was $125/foot - about $4800. > > The paint has held up very well. Have had some black streaks from black > rubstrips on an floating dock that washed right off. Had one scratch from a > bolthead sticking out of a piling, which turned out to be an easy repair > using some surplus from the original paint. The red transom shows no signs > of fading yet. > > Maintenance is to wash every 3 to 6 months with mild soap and water, and > to wash annually with a product they sell which I presume is similar to > Awlcare. BTW, the Alexseal website also lists other alternatives to their > maintenance product - one of which I recall is made by Meguiars and is > available from my local West Marine. > > In all honesty, there was one small problem when the boat was painted. > When they sprayed the red for the boot stripes and cove stripes over the > white hull, the thin red paint leached under the edge of the green 3M > masking tape amd left a fuzzy edge. So William had to touch up the white, > remask the stripes with this fiendishly expensive 3M gold masking tape, and > reshoot the red stripes. No problem using the higher quality tape. > > Rick Brass > Washington, NC > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Bush via CnC-List > Sent: Mar 6, 2020 2:45 PM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Cc: Richard Bush > Subject: Re: Stus-List Painted/Awlgrip Hulls > > This is a request for how many listers have painted or awlgripped hulls; > if so, what color, how well are they holding up, are you happy with the > work; are there issues with maintenance, any other pertinent info..cots, > etc....thanks! > > Richard > s/v Bushmark4: 1985 C&C 37 CB; Ohio River, Mile 596; > > Richard N. Bush Law Offices > 2950 Breckenridge Lane, Suite Nine > Louisville, Kentucky 40220-1462 > 502-584-7255 > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.paypal.me/stumurray__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!7SW6scDRaXU1AQu3spDJxkB39EuSD6tKYoM5DwyfZbF_eoFfINwEgDEbqogOKJyNhYA$> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.paypal.me/stumurray__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!7SW6scDRaXU1AQu3spDJxkB39EuSD6tKYoM5DwyfZbF_eoFfINwEgDEbqogOKJyNhYA$ > >
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