2006 Four-Winns Touch Up Paint (4 OEM Colors)

The 2006 Four-Winns Vibe

Welcome to 2006-the year Daniel Craig reinvented Bond and everyone was trying to squeeze a whole music library into an iPod Nano. In the boat yards, Four-Winns was busy churning out some of the sharpest-looking hulls on the water, from the weekend-warrior Horizon series to the big-cabin Vista cruisers. While the rest of the world was obsessed with boring silver, we've focused on the true survivors from the catalog: the earthy Green Gold, the surprisingly classy Light Rose Metallic, and that deep Dark Green that looks like money when the sun hits it. These weren't just colors; they were a statement that you weren't ready to surrender to the "beige-ification" of the mid-2000s.

Paint Health Check

By 2006, the "Robot Efficiency" era was in full swing. The factory had perfected the art of spraying exactly enough paint to cover the surface and not a micron more. It's a marvel of engineering, but it's a headache for us decades later. This is the **Thin Paint Era**. Because those layers were applied with robotic precision to save on materials, they lack the "meat" of older finishes. If you've got a 2006 Four-Winns today, you're likely seeing the results of those thin coats: tiny chips from dock bumps that want to spiderweb, or clear coat on the upper accents that's starting to look a bit "dry" after years of UV exposure. When the clear is this thin, once it starts to go, it goes fast.

Restoration Tip

When you're touching up a 2006 finish, you have to fight the urge to "blob" it. Because the factory paint is so thin, a heavy drop of touch-up will sit on the surface like a mountain. **Build your layers slowly.** Apply one thin coat, let the solvents flash off, and come back for another. You're essentially doing the job the robots were too stingy to do-building up a durable, solvent-based defense that actually has some depth to it. If you're working on a metallic like Light Rose or Green Gold, multiple thin passes are the only way to get those flakes to lay down correctly and match that factory shimmer.