My kayak is painted on the bottom. The layer below the paint is a strip of fiberglass running the length of the keel. My boat has only been in the water a few times but the paint is already scraping off the keel in a few spots, scraped down to the fiberglass. The kayak is painted dark blue so the white scrapes really show.

I was thinking of sanding the bottom, removing the paint along the whole length, the width of that fiberglass strip, leaving it unpainted. It would basically look like a white stripe a couple inches wide running the length of the keel.

Would there be any problems caused by doing this, or does anyone have any other way of dealing with this, besides staying off the rockey beaches?

Thanks in advance.

George