polishing a aluminum boat?

[75johndeere]

thanks tony this boat has been taken care of pretty well never abused but has seen its share of nasty water up in neah bay. i was really suprised when i gutted the inside i was expecting to find some cracks in supports and stuff but i looked over the whole thing and couldnt find a singel one.  Its funny me and the old man where having a argument the other day about taking the rails off i sayed i wanted to leave them off and he told me he would disown me if i did that to his old baby. did you remove the rails or was the boat made without them?  by the way i lost that one there going back on  i searched the net and couldnt find a single pic of a bayrunner without rails

[lokidog]

Regarding bottom paint, if you don't leave it sit in the salt, I wouldn't worry about it.  Mine had no issues until last year when I started leaving it on the mooring buoy for a week or more at a time.

Make sure you have good zincs on it and rinse it when done.  A lot easier and cheaper than one or two coats of epoxy paint and then a couple coats of bottom paint.  Of course mine is a bit larger and unable to be flipped.

BTW, I had about 9000 miles in the salt on my boat w/o any obvious ill effects.  Now, however, I need to botom paint it pretty soon here.

[75johndeere]

will see loki it has never sat in the saltwater for more than like 4-5 day fishing trips and even then it was pulled most of the time because it was cheaper and easy to just bring it back to camp with us

[lokidog]

It's a nice little boat, I'd do whatever is necessary to keep it that way.  BTW, I'd leave the railson there.

[75johndeere]

Ya after a saw a photo of one without i think there going to stay. they are removable so i might just take the front one off if I'm bowfishing

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