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Originally Posted by JoeRobertJr
Looks great! I recently completed resurfacing my swing keel, which included a couple painful lessons. Now that you have completed your job, is there anything you would have done differently, or lessons learned the hard way? I am about to do an overhaul to my sliding hatch cover, and have not done anything yet with get coat or topside paint or non-skid.
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Hello, I think a lot of my frustration was due to
weather so not much to do there.
-The
advice of peeling your tape and retaping between coats is a lot of extra
work but it is worth it to keep lines clean and prevent peeling up a previously painted area.
-pay the premium for quality
brushes and rollers
- I used a one part
paint (as I was told it was easier) but in the future I would use a two part. I didn’t find it all the easier (it still requires measuring of thinner and/or non skid additive) and the durability or the two
parts would have probably been worth it.
- light
wind when applying is ideal. The
wind dried the paint faster, even at the max 10% thinner mix, so roll and tip sections had to be very small (like a square foot maybe) or else it started to get tacky and couldn’t be tipped right.
-apply non skid even where it wasn’t before if you think you need it (advice given to me from
Another)