Help painting the hull mistake? Hubby might kill me that I'm taking on too much!

[1966 Contagious]

Here is a little bit of my back ground I have a AA Degree in cabinetry Carpenrty, my email is toolmom, I worked once on making some exterior wood parts for a Chris Craft boat and have just about remodeled our whole house that's 2,000 sqft pretty much by myself. The owner of the boat had them redone about 5 years ago with some sort of mahagony I don't know but it's really hard wood might even be Honduran if it is even We had a great surveyor look it over before we bought it and he thought just the same sand paint prime the bad areas. I don't know if it had 1 or 2 part on the boat. I can ask the owner today.
I don't for see any rot yet I've looked hard at the rail just a few areas to epoxy and sand, paint and prime. I plan to take the screws out of the rub rail and clear calk the holes then put in new screws. I'm very good at calking probably an expert by now I'll try to post pictures. I want to spot paint the hull areas I have epoxyd, sand prime the rub rails and fix a few bad port holes and paint the bottom stripe.

 

[Cricket]

Our original rails were made from some super hard laminated mahogany also. Removing them was interesting as 1 side came off easy and the other was extremely difficult, of course we started on the easy side without knowing the surprise waiting for us. Clear silicone will end up getting black so we always use white caulks, not a big fan of any silicone caulks for outdoor boat stuff. Also, don't forget to mark the stainless rails as the holes might not line up piece to piece, learned this the hard way. Sucks that the PO didn't take the extra step of epoxy coating the rails while they were raw.

 

[scallywag]

I concur on the use of 2 part paint. I prefer Alexseal after just painting my 70' MY with it, but Awlgrip, Imron, etc... all good options. If you get a bad fininsh in spots like orange peel or drips and sags just wet sand and buff the areas if you use Alexseal, AwlCraft 2000, and I think Imron. Having the option to repair without reshooting makes me less nervous. With old school Awlgrip you don't have that luxury.

95% of the work is the prep. Took me and three other guys 3 months and only 3 days of it was actually painting the topcoat. Not sure why they call it painting when all the work is sanding?

You're fine removing the wax after sanding the spots although it is much better to do it before hand. Just put way more elbow grease into it. Also spray it with water afterward and make sure there aren't spots repeling water.

Good luck on your project! The only thing better than having a gleaming new paint job on your pride and joy is being able to fold your arms and say to yourself "I did that."

 

[rsmith]

The wood rails are a huge problem on these old 50's while it kind f gives you a sacrificial buffer point rot and cracking is always a problem. I've replaced most of mine with IPE and epoxyed it but there is still a coefficient of expansion difference that causes cracking at the hull joints. Interestingly enough the 69 50 used the aluminum rails that the series 1 45 had. From what I saw the extra weight of the 50 would crush the aluminum in a hard landing. You need to strip them and start from scratch

 

[Cricket]

Scott, the vinyl rails we replaced the wood with are solid all the way through except for the 1/8th inch caulk cut out on the back. Don't tell anybody but I may have whacked a few pilings pretty hard over the last 29 years. Think it came from Barbour Plastics in Mass in either 16' or 20' lengths, last time I looked didn't see the profile on their www anymore. Rail profile doesn't stick out as far and isn't quite as tall as the original, has served us well and holds paint even better, was easy to install since the boat has shoe box hull deck joint.

 

[jim rosenthal]

Use marine caulking. Don't use anything you get from HD or Lowe's. Stick to 3M or Sikaflex. And don't use 5200 unless you are willing to use a small nuclear device to get the pieces apart if you ever have to. 4200 is fine. I don't think there is any place for silicone caulking on a boat, unless maybe in the shower?

 

[rsmith]

I'd like to see a pic if you have it. My lower rails are pretty old and are going to be ready soon.

 

[rsmith]

This was after the 2x12 fender boards chewed through.

 

[jim rosenthal]

That'll buff out.

 

[1966 Contagious]

a little of my 4ooo marine clalking. in the first picture Im in the process of working on the other I will post another after I paint it.

 

[1966 Contagious]

That'll buff out.

Ha Ha, That is why I need to address it now and turn to that.

 

[1966 Contagious]

I have 2 more weeks to get what I need to do done and Im just spot painting the one part that he used on the boat before. The boot stripe he used a one part Epoxy sign paint but I'm using boat one paint epoxy. No wax build up on the spots i have already done and using 4,000 boat calking. We plan in 2 more years after were done paying for our last kid in College to have it professionally painted for the hull.

 

[jim rosenthal]

By then I might be retired, I'll roll and tip it for you.

 

[1966 Contagious]

By then I might be retired, I'll roll and tip it for you.

Come on over that is actually the fun part I did part of it yesterday the tip is to not put too much on the roller and really light tipping of the brush. Off to my painting and sanding.

 

[1966 Contagious]

Cleaned the canvas with a pressure washer and cleaner. Weather was cruddy the past few days so I started working on the swim deck, hubby helped sanding. This was what it looked like before had some peeling varnish.

 

[1966 Contagious]

Staining and one coat of sealer.

 

[1966 Contagious]

Some photos of the touch ups but really painting the whole hull : ) Sunset and shadows in the bottom photo.

 

[1966 Contagious]

Boot stripe is done and turned out better than I anticipated, finishing up painting the starboard side the next few days. I had 4 portholes I had to strip and recaulk. Swim deck has it's first coat of Flagship lacquer on the top and is looking amazing. Will post all photos of all when I'm done, weather here is perfect the next few days so gotta work work work on Valentines Day a true LOVE!

 

[1966 Contagious]

Boot stripe is all done looks great. Rub rail and portholes all done starboard side fixed and painted. It's all waxed. And not bad for my first paint job ever on a boat.

 

[1966 Contagious]

More photos the green you can see the difference after I waxed 1/2 of it.