Reply To: Just because it’s new

[bob-d]

Thanks Bob and Monte. I never restored an aluminum boat before……….and probably never will again. Ha.

What a labor intensive job. For some reason the people over at Interlux paint want you to sand between every coat of paint and primer. Sanding around hundreds of rivets, on multiple coats is some hell of a job, never mind the cost of marine paints. The cream color bottom anti-fouling paint was $300 a gallon alone….yikes.  With 4 different colors on the boat, I’m afraid to add up all the paint bills. I did everything over on the boat, complete with a new mahogany transom from a lumberyard in Pennsylvania that supplies mahogany to Gibson for their guitar bodies.. I ended up spraying 10 coats of varnish on it. I even worked with Thomas over at Retropaints to find the correct color for the Simplex control box. It just went on and on. Dan Gano provided a nice original Evinrude  ignition switch plate for the dash as well.
Even though it didn’t run well, it did look great sitting in front of my camp!

Bob D