My teak is holding paint. It took several coats to keep the oil from showing through.
I read someplace fishermen use exterior house paint to paint their boats, they get banged up too often for yacht quality work to be worth it. Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I Kent Island MD USA From: CHARLES SCHEAFFER via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2022 4:36 PM To: Stus-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: CHARLES SCHEAFFER <cscheaf...@comcast.net> Subject: Stus-List Re: Interior paint Hi Mathew, I've been told teak won't hold paint. Mahoghany can be painted but not teak. Last year I painted my fiberglass ceiling. I had added some fiberglass cloth over high stress areas under the clutches and faired with Total Fair, so these areas were green. I chose a good quality exterior latex paint from Behr. "Off White" is the color and I love how it looks. I chose the Scrub Defense version with "paint and primer" is in the can. One coat using a mohair roller did the trick hiding all the differenet colors of fairing and filled holes, ets; all my good work and it looks like a new boat, better than when I got her twenty years ago. I chose Behr simply because fifteen years ago, I had Home Depot color match my deck and painted a few areas that were scraped pretty bad. That paint never peeled or flaked off after fifteen years, while some much more expensive and smelly Brightside paint did within five years There are many good paints available now; Zinnser, Kiltz, but also Rustoleum sprays and any good exterior house paint. I would suggest using a high quailty water based paint for your interior. Chuck Scheaffer, Resolute 1989 C&C 34R, Annapolis On 06/24/2022 9:15 AM Matthew via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: Listers: As some of you may have surmised by my recent question about varnish (thanks for your responses), the Admiral would like the boat’s interior to look less, well, tired. Our boat is a Custom “stick” boat, so it does not have fiberglass liners, headliners, and the like. The interior ceiling needs some TLC. I thought about covering it with a vinyl fabric (to reduce the military look that I personally like), but the Admiral thinks that a fresh coat of white paint will suffice. I’m thinking about Zinnser interior bathroom paint, which is marketed as effective against mold and mildew. Thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance. Matt Wolford C&C 42 Custom
