TotalBoat Wet Edge Topside Paint High-gloss Flag Blue Enamel Oil-based Marine paint ( 1-quart )

Very unsatisfied

I bought this paint months ago and finished painting a week ago cause it took forever to dry even in my climate controlled garage. I now have to sand it all down again cause it’s the worse orange peel I have ever seen. They say it lays flat and smooth but not even close. I will be contacting the company tomorrow

I couldn't believe it.

Having restored a bunch of sailing yachts, and having been a "fan" of Awlgrip for years, I just didn't really believe that single part topside paint could do what the YouTubers said it would. But in my latest project (a complete restoration of a 1982 CT54) I decided to give it a try. Now I'm a believer. This stuff is incredible and easy to apply, clean up, and look at!

It doesn’t dry !

It takes forever to dry! I will not use this product again! Time is money. This one from 2 pm ( in Tampa Florida sun) until the next morning 10 am and the paint still sticky. Never again! Waste of money

Topside makeover

Purchased white and blue, both required little prep applied great great colors

If you've got the time this could be the paint.

I find the dry time is three times other topsides brands. On the same day, so with the same conditions, I applied Total Boat Wet Edge topside paint to one cockpit sole and a competing brand to the cockpit benches. The benches were ready for the second cote the following morning. The Total Boat took three full days to be ready for sanding to apply the second coat. This said I find myself using Total Boat Wet Edge more often as the price point is good. i just plan on giving it three or four da...

Poor value

Flat black. No matter how thin it is applied or how, it does not dry unless outside in full sun and 75+ degrees, forgotaboutit below 65 degrees. In a garage, doors open and 75 degree days, still tacky and leaving fingerprints after 3 days. Tip and brush, brush, sprayed same result. Even week old paint will come off with a rag and some mineral spirits and very mild rubbing. Recoat times are horrible, and it feel like you are coating over fly paper. If you are used to automotive paints, or even ...

Quality last

I’m restoring a 1967 Sunfish which I found had been left outside for probably more than 10 years. It required a lot of sanding, replacing self bailer, sail and some hardware so I wasn’t going to trust the paint job to anything less than a top quality paint. I’m 79 and expect to be sailing it for the next 10 years without painting except for perhaps touching up a dock kiss or two.

VOCs are strong!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I usually try to stay away from paints like this. It's viscous enough that brushstrokes take some real effort. You have to wear a respirator even outdoors on a breezy day, the VOCs are obscene! Cleaning brushes is...fugeddaboudit. Maybe the cleaner that total boat sells works better, but standard procedure for cleaning brushes with paint thinner fail miserably, and the paint is then exceptionally slow to settle out of the thinner so you can reu...

VOCs are strong!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I usually try to stay away from paints like this. It's viscous enough that brushstrokes take some real effort. You have to wear a respirator even outdoors on a breezy day, the VOCs are obscene! Cleaning brushes is...fugeddaboudit. Maybe the cleaner that total boat sells works better, but standard procedure for cleaning brushes with paint thinner fail miserably, and the paint is then exceptionally slow to settle out of the thinner so you can...

Very nice results

First coat is a little rough second and subsequent codes are awesome. Doesn’t cover quite as much as I thought it would.