Im getting ready to strip my boat within the next couple of weeks, it has six coats of paint over the original jel. A friend of mine told me the other day to use corvette stripper because it wont hurt the jel, regular paint stripper does lift the jel. Try a little spot somewhere first. Im bringing my boat to a media blaster in 2-weeks to see if they can do it with out etching up the original jel, they said they can but want to see it first ($70.00 an hr. at 5 to 6 hrs they said, witch seems cheap to me) . Six coats is way to much to DA off.