Paint for external fibreglass ?

[Andy Dingley]

I have some fibreglass sheet in the garden that needs re-painting. What's the best option around? I doubt the budget would stretch to complicated two-pack yacht paints, but I can afford better than basic orange-shed gloss.

I'd like to achieve a compromise between two things: a non-gloss semi- matt anonymous green colour, for the sake of camouflage. Also provide the most slippery surface possible. This garden is infamously fertile and green scunge and mosses take hold on anything that stands still in there. I'd like something that's scrubbable once a year.

Any favoured products? Thanks

[T i m]

My Dad once painted out the inside of a fiberglass dinghy with that multi stage, multi pack, must-be-done-in-the-exact-temperature special boat paint and it all fell off a few weeks later.

I painted out the inside of my dinghy with some white polyurethane yacht paint (like varnish but paint) and it stuck like you know what.

I thinned the first coat so it went into all the nooks n crannies and then one full coat on top and my sister is still sailing the thing regularly and it's still looking good.

All the best ..

T i m

[JohnW]

An old, small fibreglass dinghy was painted with a conventional oil-based gloss paint, Dulux AFAICR, many years ago - It's still there with no repainting, being used as a plant container, filled with soil.

[Andy Dingley]

That's my problem. For aesthetic reasons, I really want a matt(-ish) surface, not gloss. Yet anything round here that isn't slippery soon gets a green film over it.

[JohnW]

Hard anti-fouling? :-)

I've got some but it's the eroding type