Start with washing the boat with dishwashing soap. That will help strip any wax or grease off of it.
next wash the whole boat with wax abd grease remover using the 2 rag system. Wet an area and dry it with another rag before it evaporates. If it does evaporate wet it again and wipe it dry.
Now go over the whole hull using a pencil and circle any and all imperfection's.
With the pencil in your pocket use a DA sander with 80gt to sand the hull. KEEP THE DA SANDER FLAT. As you come to your pencil mark's and sand them away, remark them.
Now go over the whole hull with a product like Interlux's Watertite filler. It's a 2 part epoxy filler that will not shrink like polyester filler's and fill the nick's and gouge's. A single edge razor blade work's well as a applicator for small nick's.
Now break out the rubber block and hand block the filled area with 180gt paper. You can do it wet sanding if you want.
Wash the hull again with wax & grease remover using the 2 rag methiod.
Tape the hull where you need to tape it.
Apply 4 coat's of Awlgrip 545 primer.
A fter that has had time to flash off well and a few hour's latter, use a contrasting color of Krylon spray bomb paint to put tiger stripe's all over the boat. This is for a guide coat. It should look like this.
Now you start hand blocking the hull with 320gt wet.
Sand until there is no spray bomb color left. This is how you get the hull VERY stright.
Wash the hull again with wax & grease remover and tack it off and your ready to paint.
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