brown stripe

[mrtoad]

my com.pac 23/3 has a wide brown strip just under the rub rail – the luster is gone and i can not bring it back – what are my options ? what have others done?

thank you – mr toad

[Bob23]

Mr. Toad:
  I think mine may have had one originally but it was removed when I got it. Looks better without it, I think. I don't know how to remove it...maybe with a heat gun set on low.
Bob23

[maynard]

Hi-just painted mine with a two part paint called Perfection. The brown was in the gel coat.
The painting well easy enough, you'll need a quart and will have plenty left over.

[mrtoad]

maynard - did you paint it black or brown

thanks

mr toad

[maynard]

Since dont ask dont tell is over I'll admit that it's a light green.

[Bob23]

   Light Green? Hahahahahaha!!!! jk...bet it looks great! Any photos now that I can ask?
If I remember correctly, Sherie of Blonde Ambition fame painted hers yellow and when I met her and her boat, I remember it looked cool.  I wish we'd heard from her this summer...she always had great stories to tell. Sherie...are you out there listening?
Maynard:
   I didn't realize the brown was part of the gelcoat. Does anyone out there in 23 land know which years had the stripe and which didn't? I guess maybe they were added as part of the 3rd generation upgrade. JT's 1983 doesn't have one. My 1985 doesn't have one although above the cove stripe is a slightly different color than the hull which is why I assumed the brown stripe had been removed.
bob23
   

[wes]

Can't speak for the 23 model, but my 19/3 (1988) had the brown stripe. I can confirm that it's embedded in the gel coat - not possible to remove it with paint stripper, heat gun or sander. Frankly I hated it, and wanted a dark hull anyway, so I sanded, primed with epoxy primer, and sprayed Perfection in Flag Blue. I'm a lot happier with that stripe gone. To each his/her own!

- Wes

Before:



After:

[Cruzin]

Wow, great looking paint job! The dark hulls looks excellent! Great work! Now I want to paint mine!
Dale

[skip1930]

The brown stripe being vinyl can be heated with a paint stripping or hair drying blower. Heat and peel. MEK or your favorite solvent will remove the glue left over.

If you just want to shine it up try that car polish in the orange bottle....

I 'luvs' that black hull but will show every spot IMHO.

Parents schooner was black.








Mom could never resist writing on photos, skip.

[wes]

Skip - your boat may have a removable stripe, but I assure you that on my 1988 boat that brown stripe is inside or under the gelcoat. It is not removable by any means other than painting over it. Believe me, I tried every trick in the book- chemical solvents, heat, sandpaper.

My hull is actually dark blue (Flag Blue), not black, and I haven't found spots to be a problem. They probably do show up more than on a white hull, but in reality most people are viewing it from pretty far away.

- Wes

[Bob23]

Wes: Beautiful job...I'm sending my 23 over for you to continue using your talent!
Bob23

[skip1930]

Really? Under the gel? How odd. Then you must paint it my son.

The factory...starting at the waxed mold...spray in the clear gel...do the stripe in paint, vinyl or what ever...clear gel coat the stripe [otherwise the color and  lay-up won't bind with the non-coated stripe]...spray on the color resign...hand lay-up the resign impregnated woven glass cloth over the color...roll into the mold and cure for three days.

I was always very careful when compounding by hand with Mequire's #49 or waxing with Mother's Wax to NOT snag the stripe for fear of causing a jagged edge. The only thing I can say about my CP-19 stripe is that it is under wax and shiny. LOL skip.

Bella is beautiful !

[JParody]

Hello Wes,

                                                   Vero Bella!

[Bob23]

Maybe, just maybe, the 23's and 19's were built differently. Or on some years the strip was applied after the hull was built. Just my $.02.
bob23...and I vote Wes the official CPYOA painter!

[wes]

Let me assure you that not even Ben Bernanke has enough $ to tempt me to paint another sailboat. My right hand is permanently molded into the shape of a random orbit sander, my lungs are full of particles that would horrify the EPA, and my bank account has been drained by paint that costs $250 a gallon. But I am FULL of useful advice on what NOT to do. I made every mistake in the book (even though I read the book in advance), plus a few that hadn't been discovered yet.

I am pretty proud of the outcome though. That dark hull is really nice. I always get two or three admiring power boaters when I pull up to the ramp. Unless of course they noticed how many tries it took me to back the trailer down that ramp . Turns out sailing requires a lot of skills that have nothing to do with the wind.

- Wes