CS17 Hull 129 Status

[Tom Williams]

I haven't had a chance to post status or pictures in the last couple of weeks so here I go!

I got the hull painted. I ended up using Systems 3 water based two part polyurethane paint. It went on well and dried very quickly. I very much appretiated the fact it was water based - It made painting in the basement tolerable and clean up was easy. I recommend the paint!

The boat is now right side up and I made the mast tube and started the deck framing around the cockpit. The seat tops are trimed to fit the hull but have not yet been glued in or trimed flush with the seat sides. I'm putting that off until I get a few more thing done.

Tom

[Dale Niemann]

Your boat looks great!!!

10 years ago, I built my John Marples 3 Meter Tri "Bananas" and painted it with System Three paint. It is just now beginning to need to be re-done. I think you will be very happy with your paint.

Since I am not much of a maintance person, I decided to build a CS 17 instead of re-painting "Bananas".

How much paint would you recommend I purchase for my CS 17? I am getting close to needing it.

Thanks,

Dale

[Dale Niemann]

Just for fun, here is the 10 year old paint job on "Bananas" .

[Howard]

Your paint almost looks like turquoise, which isn't one of the 12 options. What color did you select? Was it a custom color?

[Tom Williams]

The flash on the camera makes the paint look a lot lighter than it really is. I used about 1.5 quarts of "Mercer Green". I rolled and brushed on the first coat and then sprayed on the second and third coats. I painted on a Sat and Sun. and then sanded and buffed it out on the following Tuesday evening.

Dale --- Thanks for the photo. Good luck with your CS17... It's a great project!

Tom

[Guest]

She looks good, What was the outcome of the paint for the insides?

[Kidd]

Every post that you make, I admire your craftmanship. I actually took a trip to West Marine today with the intention of buying paint for the bottom and outside of the hull. The salesman actually talked me out of buying any paint that they cary. I am most interested in finding information about this "System Three" paint or others people have successfully used on their trailer sailers. Can you point out a websight with information about this paint?

[Howard]

Website is:

http://www.systemthree.com/p_wr_lpu.asp

If you register with them, you can download their technical data sheet as a .pdf file, which will include the color choices. The fact that these paints are water based and you can apply addtional coats without sanding is appealing. But as will all paints and varnishes, a light sanding between coats may be helpful. I'm leaning toward this stuff myself for the Spindrift. I was thinking Mercer Green on the outside and the cream color (off white) on the inside, and a few areas finished bright with varnish. Interesting that they state flat out NOT to use any dark colors on an epoxy boat, yet they still sell dark colors? So I may re-think the Mercer Green....except as an accent stripe.

[Tom Williams]

Howards got you going to the right place. Sign in as a member and you can get all kinds of good info.

I had a heck of a time with paints. I tried Interlux's single part polyurethane and then Rustoleum's marine grade enamal. Neither would cure on the Systems Three epoxy.

The Systems Three LPU seems to work well. I put two coats in the lockers and I can still see through it in a couple of spots. I wanted to save my paint for the cockpit so I stopped at two coats (they are only lockers).

[Guest]

When in doubt about incompatability, I have always had 100 percent success with kilz painted on just about any type epoxy resin that I have used since 1985. This is not to say that there are not some issues with the Kilz. BUt one thing for sure, if I am going to use a one part part on any exposed surface on a boat, I will prime my resin with Kilz, multiple coats, and then paint whatever I want to over the top of it. Now this applies to almost all generic oil base paints, as I have not used any of the water based ones for topcoats. But in the section of FAQs, should be that when in doubt, always do a test area for all products.

[Kidd]

Thanks for the link, just the place. I will be sure to do a test area. The problem with the paints at West was that they did not have any that could go in the water and then come out of it. In other words not trailerable. So any way, I just decided not to fool with them. They seem kind of pricey anyway.