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3M Marine Solutions for Boatbuilding, Repair and Maintenance

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Watercraft People are Welcome Here.

  • Whether they’re your livelihood, your hobby or simply your pride and joy, 3M has been helping keep watercraft of all types at their best for more than 50 years. 3M adhesives and sealants, such as our well-known 3M™ Marine Adhesive Sealant 5200, are trusted industry standards. Our solutions for marine surface preparation include fiberglass mats and resins, abrasives, masking tapes, and our 3M™ Perfect-it™ Gelcoat Finishing System. Our advanced glass bubble technology enables lighter-weight marine parts and higher-performing lightweight marine fillers. Boatbuilders, boat owners and marine repair professionals – and their watercraft – are welcome here. Check out all of the ways 3M can help you.


  • Every product, system and technology 3M offers for marine applications is designed for the unique challenges of watercraft manufacture and maintenance: critical sealing, mildew, mold and UV resistance, effective and efficient cleaning and many more. Anywhere you need it, we have a solution – from below the waterline and through-hull to above the waterline, topside and brightwork.

  • Written and video standard operating procedures provide best practices for marine gelcoat and paint application and finishing, plastic and fiberglass repair, through-hull and porthole sealing, deck hardware bonding, marine masking and many others. They include complete 3M solutions for marine plastic restoration and gelcoat finishing from initial sanding and compounding through final wax.


Featured Products

  • The 3M™ Performance Spray Gun is the industrial coating solution that can help reduce variability in your process and boost productivity by giving technicians a smarter way to spray. Ditch the old systems – the high-maintenance metal guns that require more fuss than they’re worth – and start putting productivity and performance back into painting.

  • Go for performance. Leave the dust behind. Using the right abrasives can allow shops to improve productivity and help eliminate rework. Our dust extraction systems paired with our new 3M Net Abrasives can change the way shops work.

  • Our most advanced system for gelcoat refinishing includes abrasives, buffing pads, compounds and polishes for professional-grade gelcoat finishing. This system features our well-known Trizact™ and Perfect-It™ brands.


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