Re: More questions
tengals<br /><br />Am I missing something?<br /><br />Do I have the wrong picture?<br /><br />Are you seriously considering painting boat KR 237, currently a white hull with orange topsides?<br /><br />If so, mate, with the greatest respect, you are off your *u&k#@* rocker.<br /><br />Painting is for boats that have finishes near death. Yours is barely out of the womb.<br /><br />There will be a lot of work in just removing everything from the topdeck and hull (Yeah, I know, you think it won't but look at your boat really carefully and work out how, for example, you'll get the rubrail off and back on again and how you'll reconnect all the electrical wires etc). That's about 5% of what you'll spend prepping it for paint. The end result might be 1 to 5% better than you currently have, until you hit a dock or some clown bangs you at a ramp.<br /><br />I haven't painted a fibreglass boat. I've done a timber boat. I've done a lot of furniture restoration which is harder than fibreglass because the surface moves a lot more with temperature and humidity changes and is much more porous. I've done bits of cars as an amateur, with professional results. <br /><br />To get a really good finish on a boat or anything else is way more work than any sensible person wants to do. If it's been polished you won't believe how hard it is to get rid of the silicone. When little fisheyes keep coming up after endless scrubs and cleans and preps because the silicone is still there you'll start banging your head on the boat, but it's not it's fault.<br /><br />If my boat looked half as good as your trailer I'd just wash it, be happy, and sit there admiring it with a beer in my hand.<br /><br />Photos often conceal detail but the only things I can see that might need work are the studs on the windscreen frame, which you can leave alone if you have the canopy, and a bit of darkening at the bow where it hits the trailer roller which can easily be sanded out. Possibly even removed with auto tar and spot remover and if that doesn't work try auto cutter before you hit it with sandpaper.<br /><br />Here I was thinking you had a problem boat.<br /><br />But if you want to move up to something better, more in the classic line that needs a lot of work to get it to about a third of what your current boat is and would look really good in different paint with a different windscreen, just let me know and I'm happy to swap. I'll even deliver my boat to you.<br /><br />Mate, that smoked windscreen is brilliant. Leave it alone.
<br /><br />Calling Tinkerer, Realgun, Jamminmaz, Jimmthekid and others to talk some sense into this guy! 
