hblair

We use Sherwin Williams. All the exterior of the boat (sides & up) is being sprayed with Sherwin Williams base/clear urethane paint. The bottom I'm not sure about yet. It'll prolly be single stage urethane (no clear). I know people frown on using "car paint" on boat bottoms but 24 yrs. ago we painted the bottom of a sanger v-drive flat bottom with urethane base/clear. That boat ran 70mph and the basecoat never peeled on it.

The sides have been sanded with 320 grit (which is more like a 400-500 grit scratch on this hard gel coat) The bottom we had to step all the way up to 80 grit in order to get the bottom paint to come off at some kind of reasonable speed. I think the scratch is more like 200+ grit in the hard gel, plus the rougher scratch will help promote adhesion. And this being a white (very close to white) the scratches won't show up much. So looks like we're painting the bottom with urethane single stage auto paint.

hblair

Finally got the deck ready to paint. The area around the forward hatches was kinda cobbled up. Someone put some roofing tar around them which created a monster mess to clean up. Just have to mask the cockpit and it'll be ready to paint...

Gh700xx

Looking good man

rmac

I WANT IT !!!! awesome job man I love seeing people restore these boats I have seen too many destined to be parted out and cut up. Im hoping to do this to a panther once I find one close to me that actually includes a trailer lol

hblair

Finally got the deck painted. Feels good to say that...





Got some of the teak refinished...

Gh700xx

Nice

hblair

Thanks. We got the windshield frame painted and installed today...




We hope to paint the port side friday, starboard next week. Meanwhile we're getting the motors ready to run. We're gonna break the cams and lifters in while out of the boat.

hblair

hblair

It seems everything rarely goes according to plans with a boat, we test fired the starboard engine over the weekend to break in the cam and lifters. The break in didnt work out. The cam and several of the lifters are shot. We're hoping the cam company will warranty the cam and lifters. Meanwhile we finally got the port side painted tonight.

Randy Nielsen

What an incredible job!!! The color combo is beautiful!!