Help with painting my heron

Hi all,

You don't want antofouling unless it lives on a mooring.

You almost certainly don't want to use two pot on a boat of some age, and definitely not if there is the slightest trace of original paint.

So IMHO you should be looking at single pot polyurethane. Blakes and International have some pretty good guides on their websites.

I'd always used International, but have been using Blakes recently because International dropped the colour I use from their range and when I had a query I was mightily impressed with Blakes tech support.

International (www.yachtpaint.com)you want "Toplac", Blakes (now Hempel www.hempel.com) you want "Brilliant Enamel". The latter uses a combined primer undercoat which would be a saving in the number of tins required.

Edited by JimC - 21 Mar 11 at 11:13am

Originally posted by doomie22 With the "Brilliant Enamel", do you mean that I can just put that straight on with no undercoat?

No, its a combined undercoat and primer, so you still need an undercoat, but not a separate primer. I guess I'd probably put on two coats of the undercoat/primer and sand the first one back pretty heavily. Its handy because it means you can sand back heavily for a better finish without worrying about going back to wood on the high spots on the first coat.

I think you want the normal (non-epoxy) primer/undercoat

http://marinestore.co.uk/HA5141X.html

see how it goes.  Count on 2. 2 will be better