Trojan Boat Forum

Ok I need honest input . for those who do know i just replaced my stringers in my 10 meter. I then put two coats of west system over everything in the bilge as a barrier coat. I do industrial coatings for a living and have a 100 solids polyaspartic polyurea coating left over from a job in color stable white. polyurea is an extremely durable coating that is also flexible so it resists cracking (basically LineX truck bed liner) . the polyaspartic would go on in two 8 mil coats instead of bilgekote paint. I am now thinking of actually spraying our spray on version (just like LineX Liner) on at 60 mil (250 mil=1/4 inch) and then topcoating with the white which is rolled on. my biggest concern is added weight. about 10 Gallons of the spraying and 3 of the roll on. setting up to spray is a pita and will take me a day to set up. i have all material left over from jobs. I never ever ever ever want to replace stringers again! my wife and friends think im nuts! Im plan on doing the roll on at a minimum. am i crazy to do the spray as well?

Enough work already.. start using the boat

LOL!!!!!

I have linex in my 1972 Chevy pickup bed. Other than weight it is kinda porous and rough.......might be hard to keep clean or to clean.....just t a thought............John

I think it would be a poor choice , use bilge coat or some other paint .

paint it...

Bilge area should be clean and easy to spot potential leaks. That's why many engine room and other access areas are painted white or a grey color.

As Paul mentioned, bilge coat or similar should be used. Good luck.

mine are black.. got a Onan... but agree lt gray or white, ezer to see dropped parts to

grey bildge coat is what im doing, white would just drive me nuts when i see it get dirty, and not to mention after 20 years of working on white cars, it can be blinding in the sun, even down there i would imagine if the light is hitting it correctly

If you used West System as mentioned, you could have employed an additive on a final coat that would give it a white finish, and that would have been better than anything you could add now as it would not be a coating that would eventually peel off but would actually be part of the hull.

huh

Big D wrote:If you used West System as mentioned, you could have employed an additive on a final coat that would give it a white finish, and that would have been better than anything you could add now as it would not be a coating that would eventually peel off but would actually be part of the hull.

thats true, could have tinted your actual material. if its the pics i was thinking i saw, he did a nice slick flat finish, am i wrong?

Talk about unaniomus vote! my friends had an intervention on me tonight too! Aparently "overkill" was a term that came up alot! Think im going with the white polyaspartic coating without the spray on underneath.

For the record, this is me doing one of the 1st test years ago with polyurea to "Up Armor" the bottom of a humvee for "bomb blast mitigation" testing with Polyurea. Overkill for my bilge? I think Not!!!!!!
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