I just stripped a 21' Regulator. 10-12 hours of Scraping and sanding... The best tool was a 1" Chisel got 100% off. This is the 5 or 6th bottom I did and have used the peel away and Paint Strippers in the past with poor results. When I was doing a bottom inspection on a 29' Blackfin I picked up in Brooklyn NY last month I saw the yard using this method and the foreman said it's the fastest method other than the soda blasting.
Remove it off the trailer to make it easier to work on! The Regulator would have been faster but there was about 25% of the hull that was painted correctly and a PIA to remove..
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