Russ,

Can't get over how good that looks!!!!!!!

Russ,

Looks great! Maybe a tubular platform in black or the blue/green color of the larger stripe?!

I have a feeling a tube platform will be going on to make Deb happy. Well that might be a bit of a stretch, making her happy that is.

Thanks guys. I got the tips from Too Old, Stainless Marine with the internal flaps, (ones that DO NOT make noise or burn out).

Hope my gaskets get here today.

I figured you would go the simple rout with the stripes after looking at all the other options!!! I think it looks great. I was looking at it trying to think if you could taper them off some how but I do not think so..... The fat one would be to hard...

Jon

Looks great now, get that thing in the water I think that`s were it belongs.

Let Cuda know you can still use a boat when it is 74* thats a good day up here.

It looks great! Put a white tubular swim platform on that thing and the transom will look even more like it was supposed to be white. Next thing we know you'll be removing the rest of that teal paint. ;-)

How hard is it to remove the paint without messing anything up?

Cause Ive seen a few all white formulas and they look real nice!

Actually, ultimately the boat WILL be all white.

I guess there are a couple of routes to go as far as removing paint goes. What I did was put 150 grit sandpaper in an orbital palm sander and very gently went at it. I only burned the gelcoat in one small place, an easy repair. It took me about half an hour a side. I was REALLY impressed how just masking off with masking tape enabled the sander to sand a really fine line. Now I'm going to go back over it by hand and wet sand it with 220, 400, and 600 to get the gloss back then wax it good.

You don't EVEN know how close I came to just keep going right up the side of the boat and taking all the striping out. But then there's the foredeck to do. Right now I want to just enjoy it for awhile, then I'll go for the all white look.

Right now from what I've learned, I figure that it would take me a hundred hours to sand all the paint off, fix any and all stress cracks, then buff everything out to a brilliant shine. I think that's what I'm going to do though. The price I've gotten for painting the boat is outrageous.

Once you start the paint job, you'll find out why it's so expensive!................Cause it's worth it!

Russ ... what would be Ball park price to paint ? Oh .."BadNews" is home .....another 5K ....think I'm going to just let it hang there awhile ...

good thing that was Warranty work !!!