GoldenRivet
02-23-11, 07:26 PM
I spent most of the day getting the boat ready for spring and summer.
Today i was at the lake from about 10am to 4pm completing misc repairs, modifications, cleaning and general maintenance on the boat. We sent the canopy off to be recovered with new material, i replaced a broken 3-way trim switch and lubricated the control box and steering mechanism.
in a few days i will be cleaning the spark plugs and checking the oil and fuel filters to give the engine a little more pep (i hope).
My friend has come across a nice little 2 man, all aluminum fishing boat with a 15 Horse Evinrude engine and a trailer. The old man who owned the boat died, and the boat has not seen water in probably a decade and the widow simply gave him the boat and trailer. When the title and tags arrive and the thing is roadable we hope to have it nearly ready for the lake.
We cleaned it up the best we could and did a float test on it... everything went fine, no leaks. We have been tuning up the engine and hope to run it some time in the next few days.
Monday, the plan is to tow it to the car wash where we can put a high pressure sprayer on the boat, then use a chemical stripper to remove all the old paint from the entire boat.
once we get all the paint off the plan was to put on some aluminum oxide primer and paint the hull red. and the interior of the boat a gull gray color.
I have my buddy talked into getting a do it yourself bed liner (Rhino Liner) and coating every inch of the interior in light gray rhino liner.
my question is... would there be any problems - in the hydrodynamic sense with getting the exterior hull coated in Red Rhino Liner as opposed to just painting it red?
Seeing that it is powered by a 15 horse outboard motor, and will not be achieving any great speed i dont think there should be any issue with it. In fact i think it would look fantastic.
I guess the pros would be that any scratches and scrapes from submerged logs or sticks etc would be easily brushed off by a truck bed liner and cleanup would be as easy as just spraying the whole thing inside and out with a water hose.
Today i was at the lake from about 10am to 4pm completing misc repairs, modifications, cleaning and general maintenance on the boat. We sent the canopy off to be recovered with new material, i replaced a broken 3-way trim switch and lubricated the control box and steering mechanism.
in a few days i will be cleaning the spark plugs and checking the oil and fuel filters to give the engine a little more pep (i hope).
My friend has come across a nice little 2 man, all aluminum fishing boat with a 15 Horse Evinrude engine and a trailer. The old man who owned the boat died, and the boat has not seen water in probably a decade and the widow simply gave him the boat and trailer. When the title and tags arrive and the thing is roadable we hope to have it nearly ready for the lake.
We cleaned it up the best we could and did a float test on it... everything went fine, no leaks. We have been tuning up the engine and hope to run it some time in the next few days.
Monday, the plan is to tow it to the car wash where we can put a high pressure sprayer on the boat, then use a chemical stripper to remove all the old paint from the entire boat.
once we get all the paint off the plan was to put on some aluminum oxide primer and paint the hull red. and the interior of the boat a gull gray color.
I have my buddy talked into getting a do it yourself bed liner (Rhino Liner) and coating every inch of the interior in light gray rhino liner.
my question is... would there be any problems - in the hydrodynamic sense with getting the exterior hull coated in Red Rhino Liner as opposed to just painting it red?
Seeing that it is powered by a 15 horse outboard motor, and will not be achieving any great speed i dont think there should be any issue with it. In fact i think it would look fantastic.
I guess the pros would be that any scratches and scrapes from submerged logs or sticks etc would be easily brushed off by a truck bed liner and cleanup would be as easy as just spraying the whole thing inside and out with a water hose.