How do I get clear coat off my fiberglass bass boat ?

The guy I bought it from sprayed it and it looks awful.All white and hazy.It's a copper metal flake on top.What do I do after I get the clear coat off ?How do I get clear coat off my fiberglass bass boat ?
before you strip it...try getting a rubbing compound and buffing a small spot on the boat...you say its a white film...that can be buffed out. try buffing first! if its weather checked with the clear coat pealing on the boat...then get a fibergalss stripper from any boat dealer, and strip the whole top part...the bottom half should be a gel-coat...gel-coat can be buffed out to look new again...and when i say buff, i dont mean by hand...get a power buffer. wally world has them for around $30 in the auto dept. once you get it stripped...call macco and ask them if they can hit it with 3 or 4 clear coats. or just call macco and ask the to give you a quote to get it done, cause if you know not what your doing...you will mess it up worse then the guy you bought it from. i say strip the whole top, cause thats where it is the worse. take it all the way down to the fiberglass, and have macco match it up for you.How do I get clear coat off my fiberglass bass boat ?
Boats hulls are covered in a gel coat. The paint is under the gel coat unless it was repainted with metal flake over the gel coat. The hulls are built in a mold in such a manner that the gel coat is applied first, then paint, then structural fiberglass. If this bozo clear coated the hull it may have had some damage that he tried to fix himself. You can try buffing it with an orbital buffer but if that doesn't work you'll probably need to sand it down to the paint, repaint and then gel coat it.
There are many products on the market to do this but...





Most of them will also remove paint.





So, unless you work in small areas and do so gingerly so that the underlying paint is not disturbed it is recommended that if you really want to have this done that 1) you think about having a professional do it or 2) you prepare mentally and financially for having to have the boat repainted if the paint is marred





Do a Google search for ';Clear Coat Remover'; and you'll find links to the products offered.





Good luck %26amp; most of all...be careful if you undertake this project.
You need to use an orbital polisher with the correct pad and the correct polish for fiberglass. Get this at an auto supply store that sells painting and refinishing materials to body shops. Carquest, Autozone and O'Reileys will have this. The orbital polisher is an electric polisher with a high RPM and it will clean off the old paint. Get it down to the basecoat then you can repaint it. The orbital polisher is expensive, so you might look into renting or borrowing one.
unfortunately you got yourself a project baby, their is no good way of doing it, my best advise is to sand the whole hull, contact a company like PPG or even Imron. What the last owner tried to do is hide the age of the boat by clear coating it, if you sand metal flake or now plastic flakes, it will either turn silver or black, and there is no more gel coat left, so they sprayed it with clear coat to restore it for a quick fix or sale, sorry about your demise.
Personally id go to your nearest automotive paint store and perchase a couple sheet,s of 3000 grit wet dry sand paper and some light duty Compound, wet sand an area, rub it out and see what comes out, I think you will be surprised. when stripping you may open a whole new can of worms.
Be Very careful what you use most chemicals that attack paint or clear coat may also attack fiberglass resin.try what ever you use on a small area if any damage to underlying resin stop and neutralize .
If U sand the clear the gold will turn silver sorry sand all off repaint flake and then clear coat.
Break out the sander and go to work.