painting my aluminum boat

jscotty · #1 July 20th, 2004, 01:32 PM

i want to paint my aluminum boat but i'm not sure the process in doing so. the boat already has a coat of paint on it. any info would be great.

jscotty

mellowyellow · #2 July 21st, 2004, 05:44 AM

any bare al. has to be primed with zinc chromate

primer. sand the old paint a bit and just roll

and tip a new coat on. I like the "petit" line

of paints, but there are lots of choices. some

can be over $100/gal. if you keep it in the water

and want anti-fouling bottom paint, make sure u

get one made for al., reg. bottom paint has copper

and will react to al.

good luck,

M.Y.

shipoffools · #3 July 21st, 2004, 08:22 AM

Good luck with the project if you go to the "project boat" forum and dig in the archives there is more information than you will ever need about painting aluminum boats. I used Interlux on my 76 18ft Starcraft folowing a slightly more detailed version of the instructions above and even though I'm a lousy painter got a decent finish