Roll And Tip Boat Painting

This painting process is used to yield a perfect.

Roll and tip boat painting.

Boat restoration of the 1971 thunderbird tri hull continues with painting th hull using the roll and tip method with brightside paint. Now you re onto painting the top coat. Rolling and tipping paint can be hard to get right. The roll tip method is a non stop fast moving two person paint a thon where one person applies a thin coat of paint with a roller and the other person follows immediately behind with a brush to remove the roller stipple the so called orange peel texture and smooth out the surface.

This jamestown distributors workshop video will show you the simple painting technique rolling and tipping. Too much thinner and the paint sags or runs. In this video we have called on boat painting pro hillary from the total boat tech team. Too little thinner and the surface shows brush strokes.

You have to sneak up on the proper mix. You ve got two options roll tip or spray. One part two part polyurethane enamel or alkyd paint. Both an art in themselves but done right can come out lovely with a great finish.

Painting the topsides with the roll and tip method should take no more than 20 minutes to paint one side of a 26 foot boat. Which is the best one to use. The one word that comes to mind is magic. The key to getting a flawless finish is the thinner.