I need to order paint for an Annapolis Wherry single. Will a quart give me two coats, or should I buy more?
i recall no difficulty painting the outside white with a single quart of brightside polyuerethane. this would be using a roller and tipping out with a brush.
according to the brightside description, a quart should be good for three coats over 100 sqaure feet which seems to confirm my recollection.
https://www.clcboats.com/shop/products/new/interlux-brightsides-one-part-polyurethane-marine-paint.html
i estimate the paint surface of a wherry at between 60 and 70 square feet..significantly less than the 100 square foot reference on the brightside specifications....and i am pretty sure i had some paint left over after i was done.
you can double check with CLC...but i am pretty confident 1 quart is all you need.
h
one last point, on this. white covers very well....so i only did three coats. again the specifications make the point about opacity difference with different colors. they are definitely correct that yellow takes a lot more coats for it to be solid in color.
h
   I used 750ml of each of International Pre-kote and Toplac and 2.5ltr of Compass varnish for the rails and interior of our tandem.
I am painfully aware of how many coats yellow requires. I painted my boat with yellow polyurethane. For this boat, I'm planning to use Perfection, because it wears so well. They list the coverage as 488 sq. ft. for a quart, so it sounds like a quart of Perfection might give me two or three coats. The color will be a dark blue, rolled on over gray primer.
And two quarts of varnish? I am planning on a quart of Flagship/high-Build and a quart of Captains varnish. I'll use up the Flagship, and switch to Captains. Sound OK to you guys?
sounds like a good plan:)