Removing paint on boat

[RonG85]

I have a boat im trying to clean up. The last owner painted the name on the side of the boat. Anyone know how to remove this off of here?

[mrclean81]

Im not going to lie to you. Thats going to be difficult to remove without damaging the gelcoat. What kind of paint it is, how long its been there, and the condition of the gelcoat under it will all factor in. You alway want to start out using the least aggressive method possible, in this case I would say a strong all purpose cleaner (APC) and a brush to see if any of it will break loose, which I doubt it will. From there I would move up to something like PrepSol or FinalSol..a gentle solvent that has the ability to remove paint. This may work, but if even that dont, you may have to bite the bullet and CAREFULLY go over it with Laqeur Thinner. This will most likely take it off, but your going to leave a huge dull spot in the gelcoat. If your planning on buffing the boat out once the letters are gone, this shouldnt be a big deal. If your not, it will be. I hope this helps.

[Old Pirate]

I agreed with mrclean on this one, but you can ask a gel coat specialist about removing the paint and learning about the dangers of removing paint ( unknown type ) from gel coat. Good luck and please keep us inform about this.

[L&I Detailing]

A lot of guys who rename boats will use oven cleaner believe it or not to remove the old name and then area has to be compounded out to remove residual.

[glen e]

Ez off works perfectly if it`s paint on gelcoat - I have done about 30 of them in my lifetime - it comes right off - be aware you will have a shadow that will take time to go away...

[Tyler@Poorboys]

This sounds crazy but I used a Monster Scraper from the Home Depot to literally peel off the mess on my jet boat. Crazy previous owner thought it would be cool to ruin vintage gel with ugly paint!

Seems like forever ago... 2006

[jacoboram]

Now a days many cleaner available in market. You can buy from local market for remove paint.