Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

[rifleman_maynard]

I have aquired a 1985 Boston Whaler Newport with a 115 Yamaha. I am no surveyer, but the transom and deck seem solid, no soft spots and a sharp solid sound when rapped with a hammer. The hull has three or four small crushed spots, quarter to silver dollar sized that need to be repaired and . Structually I am quite happy with it. The outboard needs work and I'll post about that on the Yamaha/Suzuki forum.

Now, about the paint. Someone masked the gauges and ignition switch, masked or removed the windshield and railings and partly sprayed partly brushed this poor boat a flat grey green...everything. Seats, deck, hull, motor, whee. The paint is chalky and pigment rubs off.

Obviously, this is not a candidate for a beautiful restoration, but I want to cover up or remove as much of this gup as possible. I think I will try some gel coat safe paint remover on the deck, hoping to salvage the antiskid texture, and some wet sanding on the hull. We will see.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. I will get some pix this week sometime and try to post them.

I was intentionally looking for a bit of a beater for a fishing boat on Truman Lake (In Missouri, lots of standing timber, graveyard of props) but this thing is just too ugly as it is.

 

[stevieray]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

rm - welcome aboard iboats. Sounds like a candidate for a re-paint. Would probably be less work than trying to remove all that. Pics would be great - here's instructions on how to post.

http://forums.iboats.com/bbBoard.cgi?a=viewthread;fid=37;gtid=1179789

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

if it's chalking could be cheap latex paint. pressure washer the heck out of it.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

Got me thinking...... What about a sandblasted filled with a walnut shell media?

 

[tmcalavy]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

Pressure wash it and see what comes off. Then wet sand it to slightly roughen the surface(s), then repaint with the paint/color of your choice...even taking this route you will need to lay in some Bengay and/or Icy Hot. Take your time and do it in stages.

 

[xtraham]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

easy-off oven cleaner ( not the cheep stuff ) has to be easy-off brand... will take it off, spray it on let it set may have to rub a little depending on how thick the paint is, it wont hurt anything under it, but it will stain galvanize and aluminum, I use it to remove boat names, bottom paint, painted graphics/names on cars and trucks etc. it leaves the paint under it like the day it was painted over, this boat's bottom was painted brown up to the stripes when I got it, easy-off and a pressure washer and it's gone, most of the time spent is waiting for the easy-off to loosen the paint, try a small area and see if it works for you.........good luck

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

great idea, how did you come up with that.

 

[tmcalavy]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

Oven cleaner is also the cat's whiskers when it comes to degreasing/cleaning up an outboard before repainting. Dissolves all the old grease/grime, but sometimes takes two applications. Use it all the time.

 

[xtraham]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

I was sanding the name off my charter boat getting ready to repaint for the season several years ago, and had some easy-off on a rag to wipe off the dust, and when I wiped it I noticed the rag was covered in now wet paint, so I sprayed some on and viola! the amazing thing is that it does not harm any paint around or under the paint that you are removing.......

 

[rifleman_maynard]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

The pressure washer is a good place to start. I will borrow my FIL's this weekend unless the boss has other plans.

Note the careful masking of the Boston Whaler logo. And the throttle/shifter lever.

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

hate to say it but, BOY THATS UGLY!!!!. but nice boat.

 

[rifleman_maynard]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

hate to say it but, BOY THATS UGLY!!!!. but nice boat.

My wife wants to name it the "Butt Ugly" but I won't allow it. Maybe...unless I can't get that stuff covered up/ removed.

 

[rifleman_maynard]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

Oven cleaner is also the cat's whiskers when it comes to degreasing/cleaning up an outboard before repainting. Dissolves all the old grease/grime, but sometimes takes two applications. Use it all the time.

I've used oven cleaner to remove cosmolene from surpus rifle stocks, but never on a boat. Worth a try if the comercial remove doesn't cut it.

 

[stevieray]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

Looks like none of it is flaking or peeling off anywhere so it must be at least half-way decent paint with a half-way decent prep job. Pressure washer will be a good test - if no paint lifts off, I would thing about re-paint right over what's there (after a good sanding, of course).

 

[rifleman_maynard]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

The nasty green paint is on tight, I worry about getting paint to stick on the chalkiness. Wet sanding ought to help with that.

I may try wetsanding and tip and roll the hull and paint remover on the textured areas. That molded in diamond pattern does such a good job that I don't want to fill it in more than needed.

 

[stevieray]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

the amazing thing is that it does not harm any paint around or under the paint that you are removing.......

As long as it is fiberglass or factory baked-on paint. It may eat any other air-dried paint film.

 

[xtraham]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

the amazing thing is that it does not harm any paint around or under the paint that you are removing.......

As long as it is fiberglass or factory baked-on paint. It may eat any other air-dried paint film.

my charter boat is wood, gets painted every season, the easy-off will remove the painted on name dose not touch the paint under it, the name gets painted just a few day's after the paint on the haul is dry .....

 

[stevieray]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

ham - I used to work as a sign painter about 20 yrs ago (when I was just a bald-faced boy). We used the easy-off all the time on boats. One day a guy brings in an old van he wants to sell that we had lettered about a year earlier & my boss says, "Stevie - try the easy off on it". 20 minutes later he was writing the guy a check for a new paint job. Just a caution - all paints are not created equal.

 

[xtraham]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

stevieray: I am not here to argue, just hopefully help others out, and I to have removed stripes, names, graphics on auto's truck's boat's etc. even on my own truck before I traded it in, and numerous other things, never did it cause harm to the underlying paint, so I don't know what kind of paint was on the van you screwed up, but common sense should tell you to try a small un-noticeable spot before trying any type of paint remover.............

 

[studlymandingo]

Re: Whaler painted camoflage grey/green. How to get it off?

There are several sealers available on the market specifically to stop chalking prior to a re-paint.

That seriously has to be the ugliest whaler I have ever seen!!!

Can't wait to see her painted up!!!