Search results

Ok- getting a little further now. Only items left are the 2 finish coats of paint on the inside/outside of the boat and carpet a removable piece of wood under the front deck hatch. It rides on the ribs, but it's just to store seldom used items underneath. I have a few things to cleanup, but...

getting a littler further now. only 2 panels left to put on. Got everything wired, put in the new depth finder, new inverter and the batteries go in next. My neighbor got the first coat of primer on the exterior with his spray gun. once the panels are in, it's just paint and tying up a few...

Here are some more shots of some of the work we have done so far. Cutting the front deck out now, taking a break.

here are a few more pictures. Getting close to putting on the wood, carpet, wiring electronics. We went a little rivet crazy on the building of the front deck, but we have a lot of brackets underneath to keep the aluminum nice and level. A lot of boats I see pre-existing brackets up front...

So I started rebuilding my boat. I can't find my picture of my boat pre-tearout of all the materials, but I did find one of it empty with the old paint. I prepped it with alumiprep, alodine, self-etchine primer, then the inside was sprayed with Interlux pre-Kote. At That point I started...

yeah, I've seen plenty of folks have awful luck with Herculiner and a few that said it has held up. So if I dont do herculiner, what is the best way to cover up the larger bare aluminum spots with primer and get the sanded spots with primer?

Hey everyone- So, I have a 14' 1983 Blue Fin tin boat. Took out the floor as it was rotting, and I didn't like the layout. Now that it's out, I have sanded some areas on the inside of the boat to bare aluminum, but just used 220 grit over the rest of the inside. Paint wasnt really chipping...