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Old 11-12-2015, 11:06 PM   #1
Dune
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Any standard enamel off white paint that won't darken in color in the sun ?

I ask as I had a quart of Glidden enamel special mixed to match my boat paint for the sole purpose of taking an artist brush and filling in some cracks in the gelcoat here and there (boat is painted over gelcoat with something like Awlgrip a few years ago but a few minor cracks showing in places)

I know this isn't the ideal fix where one gouges out the crack, uses actual gelcoat mix, sands, paints.....but it worked quite well enough for such fine cracks. But then just two months later the color has darkened on the Glidden paint that the fixes don't blend in so well anymore.

Should I try a two part paint more similar to the original ? The beauty of the one part however is it stretches a bit and would seem more unlikely to crack again in the future....but the color change is the problem.
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