My Hustler Gets A Mitcher T Paint Job

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11-24-2009, 12:45 PM

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I am also a painter and totally agree! I see way too much stuff taped on boats (and yes I know how they are built) that doesn't need to be... rubrails, thru hulls, vents etc... Funny I saw calk around a rubrail painted over on a new Roughrider a while back, wonder how its holding up now

you dont want to paint behind a rubrail,you want to stay about 1/8 away from it,
the rub rail expands when it rubs the pier and if you have paint behind it it will rub off.
dont question Mitch,he really does know what his doing!

11-24-2009, 12:54 PM

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No assumptions, but there are alot of people who followed this thread from the beginning and then it was dead in the water. I look forward to progress threads like this and like many others I was disappointed not to see the final result.

Then I must really have you pissed off then

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11-24-2009, 01:00 PM

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I never thought of that one. That is a good hint, not that I will be painting any boats soon.

11-24-2009, 01:06 PM

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I never thought of that one. That is a good hint, not that I will be painting any boats soon.

great,let me know if you need any more tips

11-24-2009, 01:11 PM

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point taken

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11-24-2009, 03:24 PM

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All i am going to say is there is a very good reason Mitch is one of the top boat painters in the country

Trust me know one works harder at thier craft than Mitch

He is not the only boat painter out there but he is on the top of the heap with a few others for good reason

11-24-2009, 10:09 PM

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great,let me know if you need any more tips

Yea, how to pick the winning lotto numbers,,,

Sorry off topic.

11-24-2009, 10:23 PM

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I have no prob with Mitch if he wants to tape everything thats fine. If the paint is coming off either it wasn't prepped correctly or your hitting the pilings pretty hard...

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11-25-2009, 06:31 AM

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I have no prob with Mitch and I do understand what you mean but I can't agree! Most boats have a fixed rail with a rubber insert and alot of the older boats have a fixed rail with no insert! Are you saying a stainless rail will flex more than 1/8in and go back into shape?Sorry it's not happening! Not trying to start a pissing match but I do know from experience that it's just a b/s excuse...

most of the new boats that Mitch paints have the rubber rub rail with the stainless insert and they will move,your right about the stainless steel rub rails not moving but thats not what most of the new boats have .
the reason I know this is because when I had my first boat painted by mitch been in the automotive bussines for over 30 years I removed everything including the rubrail,when I dropped the boat off that was the 1st thing Mitch told me and he was right a season later the rubrail had chipped the paint,since then his done a couple of more boats for me and numerous boats for friends and we left the rub rail on and he did it his way,all I can tell you is none off them had any problems around the rubrail.

Anyways this thread is about Strip and his Mitcher T paint job,so Ill leave it at that.

Last edited by boatnt; 11-25-2009 at 06:43 AM.