How to get your boat ready for bottom paint 

Have watched a few times in readiness to painting my boat feel much more confident now many thanks from the lockdown 😢 Uk 👍🏻

Thank you so much for your spot on tips for boat painting. I just got my first motorboat, and getting it ready for summer. You are the greatest guide for my project. It has been a lake boat, and as i live on island, it's going to be a sea boat. sanding, primer and antifoldin, wax and should be ready to go :)

taking my hull down for fairing and repaint, 1956 Chris Craft 26' Cruiser. Lou is my guru.

Excellent video. Informative and Very good delivery

fantastic video great work very informative

Thank you! this was very helpful for a 1st timer!

This guy is the real deal and knows his craft well. I was taught by some old school painters like him and can appreciate listening to him talk all day.

Excellent video Mate, thanks so much for sharing 👌😎

Great video, very helpfull.

Great video. Thanks.

love the tutorial ... hes wearing a dust mask good ,using the festool sander awesome, also boat travels through water stem to stern so hes sanding with the grain also taking off very little paint letting the sander do the work ..ill give Louis a thumbs up ... would like to see how he paints where stands are located ... thanks again

I love these videos

Finally a good video on this

Some good common sense advice , and well explained , thank you .

Love this guy! I'm going to paint my boat soon.

Great job

The sander made fast work of preparing the bottom for paint. Good to see that heavy buildup of paint being taken down to the gel coat.

Thanks for sharing sir

I use a scraper to take off all but a scuff to clean gelcoat, then apply 4 coats of interprotect 2000e and 3 coats of ablative. But you can do it this way too.

Wisdom comes with age Nice job. When you finish sanding do you wash it before painting?

Pretty cool guy Thanks

good tips

Louis.. always knows how to get it done, right.,

Nice sander. That brand is out of my budget, but I'd love to have some tools from their catalogue.

Very helpful video. Is a barrier coat not necessary before you apply new bottom paint? Or is only sanding necessary?

Trying to absorb as much of this as possible....would love to just trailer my Winterhawk over to ya 😆

Great tips sir! Love your channel. New sub here!

To re-gel coat do you have to put MEKP in the gel coat?

Great video!! Very informative. I have a jeep Cherokee (XJ) lift gate that I am looking to sand. I don't want to use a power sander. should I use blocks instead to do it?

I sanded my sailboat bottom down to the gel coat and took all the bottom paint off I'm thinking of putting another coat of gel coat on is it necessary ?

Louis you the man. All your videos are very informative. As for the nay-Sayers, opinions are like ass holes, everyone has one and they all stink.

Great video. Are you sanding to remove all of the previous bottom paint or sanding simply to remove surface debris and rough the surface for new bottom paint?

What would happen if you powerwashed the bottom, but painted the bottom without sanding it?

I think it will look better what do you say ?

What brand of boat is that.

This guy is one of my new gods along with my x-wife. Ok I obviously need more counseling !!! Great video!!! No see my pretty fact 2 to 5 minitues

It looks like a few areas are sanded down the the gelcoat....is there a barrier coat paint that can be used just for those areas?

Why is sanding necessary prior to repainting instead of removing the paint with a paint remover?

Use of personal protective devices is strongly suggested when using paint removal tools. Gloves, eye protection, long pants, long sleeves, and a hooded blouse shirt. Some clothing articles, of which are worn may need discarded, or thrown away after paint sanding. Older bottom paints may contain lead, which is hazardous to ears, eyes, nose and throat, as well as skin from prolonged exposure.

what brand of sander

what is the power of your sanding tool, please in Watts? there is a great variety of them available.

I approve of this picture show

2.40 just turn the boat around ?

Louis for a guy that' stress energy what about all that' lead base Going into your pours

Can you tell me the model number of the festool sander you used?

Hello. We are looking at a 50 foot steel boat, but it has major surface rust on the hull. Can we use the same process? What do you suggest?

Is nobody gonna talk about the video quality for 6 years ago?

Bad info. I bottom painted my boat like this 4 years ago and now my hull has blisters. Exposed gel coat needs to be barrier coated.

Sorry dog jumped in my lap. This guy is one of my new gods along with my x-wife. Ok I obviously need more counseling !!! Great video!!! None of the (see my pretty face) for 2 to 5 minutes of the video !!! When i make my mega million dollar grossing movie i will use you as the director !!!

While you explain about moving the side support @ 3.30 - 4.16. I am drawn to the view of the support on the other side of the boat.This side support has no 2x4 planks in place to movie the support on that side. I am also very concerned that the 2x4 supporting the side supports could slip with the vibration from the sander and the boat fall onto someone sanding the side of the boat. I have to ask. Are you making this up as you go along?

pues si no has hecho nada

4.53 still no 2x4 sliding planks under the support on the other side?

5.60 we see flash of you used a second plank to slid the support long. So we go from always doing something to never doing something. Sound advice.

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Doesn't sanding damage the gel coat?

I am 69 . And doing this job on my Albin Vegas..And I hope it the last time 😝 haha

I think I'd like to use something a bit more substantial than paper masks while sanding antifouling. That stuff is highly carcinogenic.

Why not use a chemical stripper?

No dewaxing before sanding??

I buffed my brothers boat and now my face is burning and drying up the last few day, any idea why and wat to do ??

looks not very safe and dusty when you have sander like that ,, need proper North mask w chem filter as well as dust filter ,, 2 your sanding should go w the shape of the boat Re up and down , so you dont make troughs and looks uneven ,, also sanding alittle bit like that just makes the existing paint thinner therefor flakes when re-applying ,, bare spots should be epoxied ,, just sayin ,, been doin this for along time !

Would recommend proper charcoal filtered respirator, paint suit and gloves. This paint contains mega toxic chemicals.

Gloves, eye protection, keep the mask on.

64 Jesus I thought he was at least 105