Aloha all,
I was wondering if anyone has ever refinished their OC1? I just picked up an older fiberglass OC1, and I want to see about refinishing it after the holidays. After checking with some of the boat yards here in San Diego, everyone seems to want about $30.00 a square foot to shoot the OC1 in LP, which would put the cost a bit too high for me to afford. I was wondering if anyone had any info on people in SD area that can do the job?
mahalo,
Christian
Submitted by Otto on Fri, 12/01/2006 - 11:29am
If you are concerned about keeping your canoe around the same weight it is now, you may want to ask if there would be a significant weight difference by refinishing your canoe. I had considered this with my first canoe after it had acquired a few dings to the gel coat. I was advised that re-applying gel coat to a canoe outside the mold would add quite a bit of weight to the canoe. I don't know if refinishing your canoe with automotive paint might be better of worse in this respect, but it might be an option to check on.
#1 Sat, 12/02/2006 - 4:32am
This is where the newer china built oc1 diff as alot are sprayed in automotive paint and it can easily be refinished by any bodyshop or you can add fades ,graphics or whatever easy and cheap .Its lighter and easier to refinsh than gelcoat
#2 Sat, 12/02/2006 - 7:36am
I prefer gelcoat for more troublefree durabilty in the long run. If the boat is handled properly, as a lightweight safety-survival critical piece of equipmnet should, then gelcoat should pose few problems. That's been my experience anyway (5 boats). I'm not at all enamoured with painted un-gelcoated boats.
#3 Sat, 12/02/2006 - 8:41am
Anyone know if you can spray 2 part automotive paints directly over gelcoat?
#4 Sat, 12/02/2006 - 6:10pm
don't know if you can...but why would you want too??? then you have the weight of the gel coat and the automotive paint...
#5 Sat, 12/02/2006 - 8:42pm
Not to paint over the entire hull. Just to put some flames etc. on it. I'm sure the flames would add enough speed to make up for the weight of the paint.
#6 Sun, 12/03/2006 - 5:18am