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. . . The boat does have some trinidad bottom paint! DOH!!!! What to do? any white color cover ups that adhese good! Suggestions?
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bottom paint job I did. It held up very well during a 700 mile trip and 2 weeks in the water. Any marine growth just wiped right off with a nylon mesh covered "windshield cleaner" sponge. If your bottom paint is the hard non-ablative stuff,
Signature Finish would probably stick to it. I'd call Tom Fabula (get phone no. from website); I'm sure he could tell you if it would work. Got to be careful with any sanding of antifouling paint, BTW - the dust is VERY toxic!
Although Awlgrip is a good paint and very popular, it's not repairable . . . if you scratch it, you have to redo the whole panel, so I'm not a big fan of it for that reason. I think they make something called Awlcraft that is repairable, but don't know how it holds up. Awlgrip might be ok if you're building a trailer queen, but I use my boat a lot and I've already had to touch up some scratches on the bottom and bootstripe a couple of times. With the Signature, I just use a foam brush, and it's impossible to tell where it was touched up.
On the rubrail, protection/function is more to me than appearance, and it's hard to beat that big solid rubber one. You can also clean it with alcohol and put some Armorall on it to improve appearance. I'm familiar with the SS/rubber insert type you mentioned, and I don't think it'll provide as much protection, although they do look nice. I changed the heavy extruded aluminum one on mine for the big 2" black rubber one that I ordered from SeaCraft in the 70's. My boat had some spider cracks along the gunnels from some dock walloping the previous owner did with it. They might not have been there if it'd had the rubber rail on it. ET23 sent me his old rubber rail and I was able to use pieces of it to fill in the gap that existed after I had transom cut-out filled in; even used some of it around the edge of my bracket, and that has prevented damage from pilings around docks, etc. If your rail is that same type, it also has an inverted U-shaped spray deflector molded into the bottom of it that works really well when you punch into a big wave! Denny