I had some free time last night to play with the boat and the paint that I ordered. I used a roller and also used my small HVLP gun to see which method layed down paint better. I ultimately liked the spray gun better, as it is much more control-able in my eyes.
At first, I removed the old adhesive from the gunnels with a gasoline soaked rag and a razor scraper. Which happens to be the only way that I could successfully remove it. Id say that from start to finish for just one half the boat, I was scraping for nearly 2 hours on and off.
After the stripping, I wiped it down with some solvent to get rid of the gas residue left over. Once dry, I shook my can of the Majic SE primer, and laid a thin coat of that on the top of the gunnel. It is a quick dry primer, so 10 minutes later, it was dry. Then I went on to shake up the can of regular metal primer, and put two nice coats of that on top of the SE primer. This is a slower drying primer, so I laid the two coats, and went to town to grab a bite to eat, and get some supplies.
After coming back, I turned the heat up a little more and started to mix up a gallon of my Rustoleum paint. After working with it for about 20 minutes, I bit the bullet and started to mix the paint. I mixed up the 2 cups of paint, hardener, and thinner as directed by the sticky thread. I let it 'cook' for 30 minutes while final prepping the surface to be painted. Now I moved on to attempting to spray some of the paint with my small HVLP gun. (the very small harbor freight gun, apparently I lost the bigger one) I had previously painted the inner transom skin in an IH off white, and I planned to color match that with the new paint when it came in. So I roughed it up with some 220 grit paper and went to spraying with the HVLP and paint mix. Overall, I was pleased with how it came out of the gun (keep in mind, this is a 1.0mm tip) and also how it laid on the transom skin. After completing this, I realized that I mixed too much paint. I used maybe a 1/4 cup for the transom skin, and then maybe 1/2 a cup on the gunnel top. So, about half the paint that I mixed, was wasted.
But, all in all, I am pleased with how it came out and aslo how the color looks like in person. Here are a few pictures for you guys to look at, because I have been lacking lately.
https://goo.gl/photos/GNbXm4DddPqZ6YoH9
https://goo.gl/photos/xGumfmmamJH5mNwE6