Re: Painting the inside
Barnaby, I only work on mine an hour or two at a time at night. But, If i had to guess I woud think the inside on an 18 would be 50 hours or so. If you have any major floor repairs maybe longer. I think my recycle guys get a workout every couple of weeks with bud light bottles.
Mal, on my first Seacraft I completely sanded the stripes down to smooth flat deck with an 8" soft pad and 80 to 100 grit peel and stick pads on my buffer. I then shot awl grip with griptex on the entire floor. It came out great but is hard to keep clean no matter how much you scrub it looks dirty.
This time I just took off the rough spots on top and left the smoooth 1/2 inch line in the floor. I filled what pin holes I could see and shot the 545 primer on the floor. A lot more pin holes showed up then and I had to fill them and prime it again. I plan on shooting the floor with paint now and then I'll tape off the smooth lines leaving only the areas exposed that I want to non-skid. My hope is that it will look very close to what was there origionally. If I were to do it again I would sand then roll gel coat to fill pin holes before spraying the primer. The primer dosen't like to settle in the pinholes and fisheyes around them when you spray it, thus the two coats I had to do.
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