I29 Painting the Hull

[James]

I am thinking about painting my I29 Navy blue.

It currently has the light blue gelcoat...but their are spider cracks, fading and it's losing its luster.

 

Anybody had experience with this, recommendations with painting or redoing the gelcoat?

I am currently looking for threads on this topic.

Thanks

[S & S]

There are many very good booklets for free at any marine paint store on how to paint a hull. They tells you everything, from A to Z about painting any hull, professionally. Just test your old paint and make sure your new paint is not harder than the old one.  You may need to strip your old paint down to a gelcoat.

From my personal experience, dark colored hull are more difficult to keep clean. Chalking, salt stains are more visible. People say "white cars never need washing" for a reason. 

Although I like Navy Blue on hulls.

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[Don Pierce]

If you like the beauty of blue - consider a white hull with a blue stripe here's an example. I second the concern of a dark hull...

http://www.sindbad.ca/forsaleoday27.htm

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From: S & S <numbe...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: I29 Painting the Hull

[S & S]

There is always a tough choice picking a hull color, safety or low maintenance.

Red and Yellow are proven to be safest colors Best visibility in search/emergency/fog/etc. Higher care required though. My favourite is burgundy-red, but ... maybe my next boat.

Whitish are lowest visibility, ordinary, no nonsense,  but easy to care.

Dark colors are failing all the above, but look good at the dock, if maintained :-)

[S & S]

Sending few shots of my I-29 1968  with Green hull for color discussion.

You can see how it blends with the background even from a short distance, but looks good at the dock, on a sunny day only.

[bi...@islander29.com]

 

Nice to see and hear this group still lives!

 

Great looking green hull and very nice I29 specimen. 

 

I too am in need of hull and topside paint in the next year or 2 and would look forward to hearing how it went for you. (dark colors look great but too much maintenance for me.  Hard enough keeping up with the rest already...)

 

On the other broken rudder issue...sounds like some good advice was offered.  In a perfect world, having a new one fabricated would be the safe bet I might think.  If that was sitting in the water for any length of time the wood core may be entirely rotten.

Hopefully you can tell once you start digging into it.  (replace the pintles and gudgeons while your at it...)

[S & S]

Video of I-29 in 2010 motoring at 10.2  knt, link below  (w near new 35hp Universal diesel)

You can pause video at the end on GPS to see the speed

That was my fun boat in any weather. Better than much bigger sailboats I have and I had. (you can judge my boating obsession from my videos on youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGv2U9ldJyg

Cheers.

[bi...@islander29.com]

S&S...or anybody...

 

Any advice or good sources for a replacement motor for my i29 original gas Atomic 4 that is about finished?

[S & S]

25hp Universal FWC diesel was made to replace retiring Atomic-4 with little to no modifications required for your engine room. Same motor mounts, engine size, shaft size/angle, etc.

If you can find one in good shape with average hours, buy it (very low hours is not always a good thing for a 20 years old diesel) 

Buy new 25hp  Universal if you can and your I-29 will be timeless classic with a new heart. 

In my case it was 35hp Universal and more modifications were needed. 

Some cabin space was taken and an access to the quarter berth was blocked, but I could out-motor most trawlers.