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Plus putting them down for months at a time seems to take greater toll than the year round use of the warmer/transient boats does at least to me

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If you want you can get the boat down here and I would be glad to make sure it does not stay idle all those months :D

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Fortunately I have some Broward county homing pigeons that I made Under Armour for. So I Strapped their little feet around the steering wheel. I just put her back in the water, got her out past the walrus and polar bears on the icebergs. Set her adrift you should see her in a few weeks. Don't worry I painted "jorgeinmiami" down both sides and rebel flag flying off the console so I'm sure you'll get it...lol

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I'll keep an eye out for it as it passes by Hatteras. :D

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When ya see it don't worry about all those valvestems drilled every three sq. feet that's just the tricky flotation system I thought of "fix o flat", were gonna fix the ocean flat around the cape in January...there's one for the bar... Uncleboo I think the piegon might even try to fly the boat through Oregon inlet and out Pamlico. Anyway just cut the valvestems flush for me to help aerodynamics for the rest of the trip it Should be dry by then. Again don't worry I did the flotation right, I worked front to back and side to side. Oh one last thing don't cut the one on the fuel cap that's also part of the flotation I filled with Hydrogen don't worry not much just until the noise stopped, rtv and a bolt in the vent so no worries about anything.

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Will do!

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Little by little I have been sanding off the rest of the bottom paint and filling in the scatches on the hull.

Almost there with that.
I also removed the tank, removed the foam painted the tank and put it back in place.
Looks like rain tonight and part of tommorrow and my son has a double header baseball game also. So I guess it can wait
Pics of some progress
Tank back in

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...s/IMG_0009.jpg

Bottom almost there
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...s/IMG_0012.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...s/IMG_0013.jpg

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Well I'm getting close and I feel the anticipation of when I try my 1st paint job.
Now question: I am painting the bottom white.
What primer should I use? And then what paint should I use on top of that? And the amounts to by then in.

Then the hull again primer, paint and amounts.

And since I have the console out and stripped I mignt as well paint it too

I do plan to spray it so what an adventure( the worst that can happen is that I totally mess it up and have to sand and take it to a pro.

Suggestions please

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Your gel coat looks pretty thin, so once you get it filled and faired, the first thing I'd do is put some Interprotect epoxy primer on it to protect the laminate. Had mine soda blasted a few weeks ago, and that's what I'm gonna do, since it took off more gel coat than I expected. After that it depends on whether you're leaving it in the water of if it's a trailer boat. Mine's a trailer boat but is sometimes in the water for as much as 2 weeks at a time. I'm considering either Signature Finish or Supermarine Revolution 1000 that Carla and I are currently running some tests on.

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So then I apply the Interprotect epoxy primer 1st and then sand and paint?

Is the application brush on or spray on?