Hunt2871
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I finished restoring my nearly 40 year old Jon boat a little over a year ago and like an idiot I used BCX plywood from a big box store. I knew better but I could not source anything other than the nearly unusable plywood that is sold at such places. I painted it on both sides and all edges with 4 coats of epoxy paint and within 6 months of exposure to the sun and elements the paint is peeling and the plywood is delaminating. I am going to have to tear it all out and do it again and I think I am going with aluminum this time. I have restored this boat several times since new and each time the plywood has gotten more and more useless. I am 57 this month and I would kind of like for this to be the last time I do a complete restore of the dang thing. I have thought about marine grade plywood and polyester resin but it would be about as expensive as using aluminum and I don't think it would hold up as well. I have also thought about some of the composite materials like Divinycell but the costs are outlandish. Anyone have any ideas or any supplier of sheet aluminum in the SE US (with a couple of hundred miles of Augusta, Georgia preferably)>