When the sun bleaches out the color you can make the deck shine, but the color will be gone forever. You get a shiny dull color deck in that case.Bet you got the same Red color I have.
The only place I've ever found the particulars of gelcoat is in the spray equipment manuals and the industry literature or professional books. Everything I've seen on the net boils down to brief comments needing more info to be able to use. In my boatyard the geolcoat specialist tells me .020" is the target. The window is .016 - .020, too much and the stuff cracks, too little and it can blister after it sits in the water awhile. He talks big yachts, but says the application doesn't change with boat size.Seems to be that the Gel Coat has to be at least .020 thick to keep from cracking, that means at least 3 coats.
I took lessons from the sprayshop guy. It's involved - lots of practice needed to get good. Probably burned through a couple a hundred dollars worth of gelcoat in the process. Was working from 55 gal drums so can't say for sure.Some here have had good luck with Gel Coat, I've found that the application is highly technical, frought with things that can go wrong and best left to professionals
They get hot - really hot. They bleach out too.Colored deck's are cool, what ever happened to Green, Red, Blue and Yellow?