1st Thanks again to everyone for your responses! I have ordered from pyacht.com all of the awl grip stuff I need for the two part poly. My question is about taping. I use 3M's fineline. Taping off will require: 1) the lower strip of tape to be 3/4's of an inch above the bottom paint/water line 2) the upper strip of tape 3.25 inches above the 1st There will be a primer coat and two top coats, I think I need to re-tape between each coat, wha do you think? Thanks John Edwards CD28 Flybridge "NEO"

John, first of all, I'm glad to see you quit that lousy Senate job and have decided to dedicate your time to a much more pleasurable pursuit. Second, I tried to paint the top coat over primer without changing the tape and when I finally removed the tape the primer was so dried that the tape pulled away parts of the primer/paint layers. It patched up OK though. I would re tape between primer and top coat myself, but I may have done something wrong in my application. Henry Wing O.A. 38 Ft. Myers On 5/18/06, JE1449@aol.com <JE1449@aol.com> wrote: > > 1st > > Thanks again to everyone for your responses! > > I have ordered from pyacht.com all of the awl grip stuff I need for the > two > part poly. > > My question is about taping. > > I use 3M's fineline. > > Taping off will require: > > 1) the lower strip of tape to be 3/4's of an inch above the bottom > paint/water line > > 2) the upper strip of tape 3.25 inches above the 1st > > There will be a primer coat and two top coats, I think I need to re-tape > between each coat, wha do you think? > > Thanks > > John Edwards > CD28 Flybridge > "NEO" > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe send email to > trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.

John wrote: > > 1) the lower strip of tape to be 3/4's of an inch above the bottom > paint/water line > > 2) the upper strip of tape 3.25 inches above the 1st > John, In my opinion the finished job will look better if you do not make the bootstripe of a constant width. The width of the bootstripe should vary in proportion to the freeboard along the length of the waterline. Working with a drawing or photo find the point of minimum freeboard. Make the bootstripe narrowest there, say 3 inches. Then working forward and aft from there, increase the width in the same way the freeboard increases. If, for example, the freeboard at the bow is 1.5 times that at the minimum point, then the bootstripe will be 1.5 X 3 = 4.5 inches at the bow. Do a similar calculation at maybe ten points along the length of the boat. Of course it is the upper tape that curves, the lower one remains straight. Try it on paper.... you'll like it. Glen Zwicker M/V "PERSEVERANCE" LaHave, NS