Gelcoat Color Match Repair Kit - Neutral Base with 6 Tint Colors

Most gelcoat repair kits are pure white. Most boats are not. Cream, oyster, almond, ivory, sand, light blue, and every white that has spent ten years in Florida sun, none of them match a fresh white patch, and a mismatched repair is more visible than the damage was.

This kit starts from a neutral base and gives you the six pigments to walk it to your hull.

What is in the kit

• 1 quart neutral gelcoat with hardener, no wax
• 6-color pigment tinting sampler in 1/4 oz jars
• 2 oz MEKP hardener and 20 mL of surfacing wax
• Four 1 oz test jars with caps, 6 graduated mixing cups, stir sticks
• Wet/dry sandpaper in 6 grits, 3 plastic spreaders, nitrile gloves
• Instruction card with a colour-matching walkthrough

How to actually match a colour

1. Clean and wet-sand a small area next to the repair. You are matching the hull as it is today, not as it left the factory.
2. Mix small. Tint a gram or two of base in a test jar, adding pigment a drop at a time. Gelcoat pigments are strong and it is far easier to add than to walk back.
3. Cure it before you judge it. Wet gelcoat reads darker than cured gelcoat. Catalyse the test jar, let it cure, then hold it against the hull. This is the step everyone skips and it is the one that matters.
4. Compare in daylight, not under a shop light.
5. Write down the drops. When you get it right you want to be able to mix it again for the next scratch.

Neutral, not white: a neutral base is untinted on purpose. Starting from white means every colour you mix has to fight the white already in there, and you will never reach a warm cream. Starting from neutral lets you go warm or cool.

Repairing a boat that really is stock white? The white gelcoat repair kit is cheaper and simpler.