Reply To: How Much Paint Varnish Needed

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CWStevens
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We’re also using the Interlux Schooner Gloss Varnish…  We’ve been averaging 2 coats per quart.  A coat includes exterior shell (1, 2, 3, and 4 panels and transom), galley, exterior doors, and exterior hatch.  (The bottom has truck liner paint, from the CLC class.)  Usually, there a skosh left – enough to hit parts of the galley insert.

It’s been very hot here in Maryland (usually 85+), so we’ve thinned it a bit more than most.  Using the “cups”, we’ve been doing 8 parts varnish, 1 part Penetrol, 1 part mineral spirits.  This lays *very* nicely with very few runs and with (what seems like) extended work time of the varnish.