2021 R23 Gelcoat guidance

[r. josey]

Anyone know the name of the color gelcoat used on the overhead cabin. Marine Coat 1 says they will gladly furnish it if I can just get the name of the color. Need to do some minor repairs but am not getting a response from the factory to my query at all.... thanks.....R

 

[Submariner]

Anyone know the name of the color gelcoat used on the overhead cabin. Marine Coat 1 says they will gladly furnish it if I can just get the name of the color. Need to do some minor repairs but am not getting a response from the factory to my query at all.... thanks.....R

Even if you got the exact color from the factory, it probably wouldn't match your boat. This includes white.

Channel Surfing was the first boat painted in light grey. As a result, she ended up more of a platinum, than a light grey, making her one-of-a-kind unique. I needed some gelcoat repair when the boat was 4 years old. I reached out to the factory and was able to get 1 pint from the can of gelcoat that was used to paint Channel Surfing. (THANK YOU very much Ranger Tug!!).

And even then.. the color still had to be matched. Black had to be added to the light grey gelcoat to darken it up a little as the hull color has darkened over time.

In this video we published, Brian at PSC Marine does an excellent job is detailing how to color match gelcoat on a boat. Very interesting stuff.

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