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Originally Posted by sailingdog
First, getting the paint off... If you have the budget for sodablasting the boat, I'd highly recommend going that route. Not only can it remove all the old paint, it will leave the gelcoat fairly well prepared for barrier coating, with only the need for a good washing. There is no need to sand down to the fiberglass.
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Apologies Dog, I misread the last sentence above
You are correct.
However, in my experience as shown in my photos above (See the first photo compared to the third photo), the blasting did not remove all the old paint, but then we were looking at many years of hard paint build up, maybe thats why I needed to follow the soda blasting with a lot of sanding, but it was certainly a lot less sanding then what I would have had to do if I had not paid a professional sand/soda blaster.