1990 Crestliner Phantom SST 180

[crkranz]

I regained motivation for this project and have made some more headway. I had the hull bead blasted a couple days ago and went to work on painting it this weekend. I decided to use epoxy primer direct over the bare aluminum and top coated with single stage urethane.

 

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Here is another pic of the hull after blasting. I had stripped another boat using aircraft stripper and wire brush and this was way easier.

 

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Here it is after 2 coats of epoxy

 

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Here is what I used for paint. I've used it before a couple times and have had good luck with it and it is fairly reasonably priced.

 

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After the primer dried for a couple hours I shot the gray stripe next. Less taping doing the stripe first. The nice thing about using the epoxy/urethane system is how fast things dry and you can keep moving along.

 

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After a light sanding I taped the stripes off. They have his cool 3m tape for the pinstripe where you put the tape on and pull out the center section and you are left with 2 perfectly parallel lines of tape. Worked great.

 

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Here is the finished product. I finished up spraying last night and pulled the tape off in the dark so I wasn't sure exactly how it was going to look in the light of day. I am actually pretty happy with the results when I inspected it this morning. No runs or sags and very minimal orange peel. I just used one of the cheap purple HF spray guns.

 

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[SylvanTroller]

Looks great!

 

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