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Superyacht hull under a full containment tent, freshly finished topcoat

Superyacht painting & refinishing

Above and below.

Topsides, superstructure and decks, finished under full containment. Antifouling and running gear beneath. One crew, one standard, both sides of the line.

A hull tells you everything about the people who painted it. Stand at the bow, look down the sheer line, and the light either runs clean or it doesn’t.

01 / Above the waterline

Topsides, superstructure and decks

Everything the owner and their guests actually see. It is finished inside a sealed, filtered tent so that no dust, no insect and no shift in the weather ends up frozen into the coating.

Masked bow line before the final coat
Bow line, maskedfine line tape
Bow and sheer line masked under scaffolding
Sheer linedeck edge
Scaffolding and containment built over the masked deck
Deck, maskedunder containment
  • Topside repaints

    Full hull sides, from fairing through to the final coat.

  • Superstructure

    Deckhouse, mast and radar arch, cut in around glass and hardware.

  • Boot top & cove line

    The stripes that every eye follows. Set out by hand, taped, checked from the dock.

  • Spot repairs

    Dock rash, crane marks and tender damage blended back into the existing finish.

Crew working the sheer line inside the containment tent

The tent goes up before the first coat goes on.

Scaffolding, containment and extraction, built around the yacht.

02 / Below the waterline

The half nobody photographs

Underwater work is judged on fuel burn and haul-out intervals, not on reflections. It is also where shortcuts are cheapest to take and most expensive to discover.

  • Antifouling, stripped back or overcoated
  • Barrier coats and osmosis treatment
  • Running gear, shafts, props and rudders
  • Sea chests, grates and thruster tunnels
Antifouling applied to the hull below the waterline
Hull bottomantifouling

The order of work

Five stages, none of them skipped

  1. 01

    Containment

    Scaffold, sheeting and extraction. The yacht is sealed off from the yard before anything else happens.

  2. 02

    Fairing

    The surface is made flat, not just smooth. This is the stage that decides whether the finish holds a straight reflection.

  3. 03

    Primer

    High-build primer, then flatted back by hand until the guide coat is gone.

  4. 04

    Masking

    Lines set out and taped. Glass, hardware and non-skid protected.

  5. 05

    Topcoat

    Sprayed in controlled conditions, coat after coat, and checked under raking light before the tent comes down.

Hand sanding the hull side between coats
Between coatshull side

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Length, what needs doing and where she is lying. Photographs of the problem areas help more than anything else you can send.

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