Lancer 25: New Paint

[Steve22116]

Good evening all. Thought I share a few photos of my Lancer 25 after the first coat of paint. Steve

[Novelman]

Steve,
Beautiful! It's going to put my 25' Lancer to shame. BUT...I'll bet I can outsail yours. I'm putting my boat in the water either Sunday or Monday/Tuesday. When are you going to sail out of MDR or Ventura?
Duane "novelman"

[Steve22116]

Sounds like it's a race Duane...the Catalina challenge? Maybe we could get Frank and Timmo involved as well. Steve

[Novelman]

You got it buddy....pink slip to pink slip.
novelman

[John24307]

Beautiful job, Steve. I am very impressed and more than a little envious. I have been contemplating this for a while; my 25's previous owner painted on some kind of bottom paint that has dried leaving a very chalky blue material. I'd like to remove it and paint it clean like your boat. Did you roll your paint on (I assume so...your photos show your boat and trailer to be free of the kind of masking needed to spray)? It looks great...no sign of roller or brush marks. What kind of paint did you use? Any advice would be appreciated. John

[Steve22116]

Thanks John for you kind words. I brought her home 6 March and by 8 March we were sanding off the old bottom paint. We used small diameter foam rollers from Home Depot to apply the paint and I opted to use "Rust-Oleum Gloss White Oil-Based" paint and had it tinted using the "Behr Navajo White (1422) formula, which closely matched the gelcoat above the water line.

The reason I went with Rust-Oleum was I knew that we were doing a good job preparing the surface, a friend recently sanded a trailered sailboat that had been painted several years before using Rust-Oleum and mentioned that the bond was still very good, the boat would be spending most of her life on the trailer, and I live in the high desert, away from readily-available marine paint sources, and I can always pick up a quart at Home Depot. BTW...it took three quarts to paint the bottom and I intend to use the same paint in all of the lockers. Time will tell how well my decision and the paint holds up. Steve

[Fairwind]

Looks good Steve.. That Rust-Oleum layed down very nice.. I painted the topsides of a similar boat with industrial single-part polyurethane (about $30/gallon from the Colorado Paint Company) with an airless sprayer, two coats, and it still looks good 5 years later..

Our Lancer 28 looks very similar to your 25.. I would be a little afraid of putting all the weight on the keel only..I can visualize it pushing up into the hull..I bet the shrouds and stays get tight as the boat is in effect hanging from them...But wait, your mast is down! Did the cabin top push up?