Re: Brining back that old shine...Need HELP!!
Is is really cruddy and corroded, or is there some old paint on the hull? If it's really trashed, drag it to a shop and have it soda-blasted...then take it home and hit it with some primer...self-etching primer costs about $6 a can at auto parts stores. Or just get some rustoleum primer and top coat and paint it using the roll and tip method...you roll it on with a closed-cell foam, thin-nap roller, then barely skim it with a brush. Makes a good finish and only costs you some time. Search this forum for roll and tip and you'll find threads on how to do it. If it has paint on it, you can rough it up a little with steel wool or light sand paper and the top/color paint will stick okay. If you want camo, Stuff-mart has a stencil and the camo colors in rattle cans. You could probably paint a john boat for less than $50 with rattle-can paint. Here's a couple pix of my recent repaint of the Texas Maid. I repainted the topside deck, gunwhales and splashwell with Petit Easypoxy using the roll and tip method...it's oil-based paint, so kinda messy and requires mineral spirits for clean up. Lots of folks, including Tashasdaddy, have real good luck with Rustoleum. What you use depends on how much you want to spend for paint. Not hard to do though.
