: If I were to paint the hull of a new-build stripper
Any marine paint will do as long as you properly prepare the surface as Paul discribed. Your finish, be it paint or varnish serves two purposes; to protect the epoxy from UV and to decorate the boat. Just about any paint including latex house paint will satisfy the first purpose. For utility craft, I use a Glidden gloss acrylic latex which I roll and then tip. At about $5 a quart, it produces a good, inexpensive and easy to restore finish. From there on I would agree with Paul.

I have worked with the toxic $40 a quart bottom paints mentioned and agree that they have no place on a light craft. We don't even use them on our wet sailed racing sailboat, prefering to dive on it weekly to scrub the bottom. However, don't underestimate the toxicity of house paint. I put a couple hundred in bottom paint on a 30' sailboat, but painted the dock ladder with the cheapest house latex I could find. By the end of the season there was grass growing on bottom of the hull, but the dock ladder was clean as the day it was put in!