Recommendation for painter in Athens, Greece?

[seafowl]

I have a 46 foot boat with heavily chalking dark blue gelcoat which I would like to have painted.

The boat is close to Athens, Greece.

This is probably a long-shot, but can anybody recommend a painter in Greece, ideally close to Athens?

The painting-workmanship that I have seen carried out around the shipyards during my time there has been truly atrocious! This makes me very reluctant to even embark on the project.

[Sailorman97]

Originally Posted by seafowl

I have a 46 foot boat with heavily chalking dark blue gelcoat which I would like to have painted.

The boat is close to Athens, Greece.

This is probably a long-shot, but can anybody recommend a painter in Greece, ideally close to Athens?

The painting-workmanship that I have seen carried out around the shipyards during my time there has been truly atrocious! This makes me very reluctant to even embark on the project.

I would get a polisher and some Aquabuff 1000 and 2000 and try that first. Painting is big bucks and if you hit a dock you need a new paint job.

I have had 3 boats all white, and 2 of them polished up so well people thought they had been painted.

I would definitely stay away from vinyl wrap. For a good job you need to prep it as if you were going to paint it, which is to say it has to be completely fair. If not you will see every bubble and every nick in the hull. Once you have it fair you might is well paint it because you have already done all the work.

[MicHughV]

If you are not adverse to doing it yourself....try a two part polyurethane paint.....maybe a lighter color. Dark colors really show up scratches, etc.

I've painted a hull three times with the above. There is a certain technique involved, but it's easy to learn. The finished project will come out like the hull was sprayed.

As above, some sanding prep work is involved.

Typically, having a boat repainted is going to cost serious money, as yards typically spray it on. Here in the US, prices vary, but I'd expect around $200/ft, $9,200 for you, maybe more. Not sure what the prices in Greece are, but likely similar.