It works perfectly (accept for painted sock syndrome),
and you can keep reusing your palette, safely painting
over the layers of dried Aquacote. Gets a bit heavy
after a while, is all.
It only took minutes before the ‘this stuff is good’
penny dropped. By the time we finished questions
were being asked about use over existing boats
including older wooden boats and glass and alloy
ones too.
The answer is of course, yes. Contact StrayDog, or
your local Bote-Cote agent for more details.
Combined with the water based epoxy Aquacote
epoxy primer, it’s super good on Alloy. Not surprising,
since the technology was first devised for aircraft use,
in the US.
We finished the off white over all the planks except
the sheer, which is British Racing Green in actual.
(We had some excellent distractions) work time of
about 2.5 hours.
We had a fair bit of discussion between coats. In
including, ‘how many coats’?
Answer? Enough!
When any substrate shadows have vanished is my
usual answer. Once that is achieved, if you want
extra shine, then a light wiping over with Scotch
Brite to remove nibs, a fresh water wash clean and
then wiping over with Aquacote watered down by
about 25%, with 50% extra cross linker, using a
The first Kangaroo Island St Ayles Skiff with her
Penneshaw aquacote livery. aquacote brilliance;
Off White hull, British Racing Green on the
sheerstrake. Not bad for a first go, congratulations
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