Inquiring minds want to know..........

What do ya think Rob, time to dive in???

Being a painter myself and looking at this progress pics and seeing all these parts taped up that could be removed makes me wonder. I paint cars and will be painting my own boat soon and when it comes to the cars we take everything off not mask around it. When it comes to my boat it will be the same thing everything will be removed

I have a feeling this thread will "disappear". :rolleyes:

You are assuming you can get at everything to take it off. Unlike a car, that is not always the case with a boat. If you ever watched a boat being built from scratch many parts are put in place before the deck and hull are bonded together, and before the engines are rigged.

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:eek:

Any part I see taped in those pictures can be removed. Cleats, stern light and the mounts for the trim tabs. Sometime people don't realize its easier to remove then tape over.

It depends..... I painted my transom last winter and taped over the tabs... They way they're bonded/sealed, along with hydralic lines it can sometimes be a real PITA to get off and sometimes the gelcoat comes with it. There were a few steering fittings that I didn't remove, along with the lifting eyes but what i did for those was loosen the backing nuts and push the fitting out approx. an inch or so so I could paint behind them, then taped them off.

Also, on my boat, to get off the grab rail that goes down the center of the boat off you need to remove the entire headliner from the cabin which due to how it's installed (bullet proof) it will take a LOT of time to take it down so most people, unless they're re-doing the interior, tape and paint.

When I painted the deck of my old Panther like 10 years ago I was able to remove EVERY piece of hardware.

I agree on some of the other stuff like cleats, thru-hulls, rub-rails etc., yeah, take em off!

You are assuming it was the painter's decision not to remove all removable parts. The customer may make that decision based on what the additional cost is to remove and replace those parts. Not all removable parts on boats are easily accessed from inside to get at the nuts. Removing parts sealed with 5200 can result in gel damage.

I'm sure all the options were discussed with Rob before the job was started. We all know, including Mitch, of the problems Rob had with the other shops that worked on his boat.

Maybe he is just too busy to worry about posting pics and talking about it ???

Who knows Rob personally?? Why don't they call him instead of guessing??

I sent Rob a P.M.--Lets see if he reponds.