I"ve been reading through the posts concerning bottom painting and still have some questions.
It appears that the proper way to do this is to bring the hull down to bare metal throught the use of a sand blaster. This is not an option for me this year due to the cost involved, but I need to do something with the bottom.
I had a commercial pressure washing company come over and blast all of the loose paint off the bottom using water. What I am left with primarily is the red bottom paint that appears to be factory, with some kind of yellow looking primer under it. There are some areas that showed bare metal at some time in the past, and over these areas is a white paint of some kind that is very hard and difficult to remove ( maybe some kind of primer). The blue trilux taht was put on the bottom by the previous owner has nearly all washed off with the pressure washer. I have purchased red trilux paint for the bottom, but am wondering what steps I should take before I apply it.
I have some areas of bare metal. Should I treat the whole bottom as if it were bare and just follow the interlux instructions found in another post, or should I just treat the bare spots with these steps and then paint the entire bottom?
I guess what I am asking is if I should use vinyl lux prime wash on the entire hull, or just on the bare spots. After that, should I use interprotect 2000E on the entire hull, even over the remaining trilux paint, or just do the areas that were bare and treated with the prime wash?
