OldDan1943
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Paint it Pepmo Pink?
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Ugh! Paint peels on aluminum, drop the sensitivities…
Does anyone have a cunning suggestion for how to persuade a clever female that bare aluminium has its own attractions? My lovely wife is in to interior design, colors and God knows what, keeps insisting we paint it. I really like the "used fishing boat" look, you can hide in the crowd and zero maintenance. So - suggestions needed????
Forgot to mention something the wifey and I have discussed to do instead of painting the hull.
Use accents, either with paint, vinyl wrap, or have a design made out of aluminum that is welded to the hull. A decent graphic artist should be able to come up with a design that could be easily cut out of aluminum. The aluminum design could be painted to make it pop out even more.
Not sure if vinyl wrap is a good thing on an aluminum boat and it has other issues. Pretty sure we would not do this but it is an idea.
We don't have a boat but we picked out a name years ago that works if the boat is a "trawler" or a sailboat. The name provides the idea for a very cool accent.
Later,
Dan
Rarity? Most of the fishing fleet in the PNW appears to be aluminum. Anything from 12' to 80' or so and less than 20-30 year old. Tens of thousands of them at least. Lots of aluminum sailboats too.
The problem I have is that it is difficult to keep paint on, and if you leave it bare, if you touch it, lean on it, sit on it, you will pick up oxides.
This discussion reminds me of the time my wife and I were discussing aluminum hulls and the fact that in my mind, paint is not even a viable option on aluminum. When we were discussing advantages that go with no paint, I pointed out that a painted hull starts out beautiful and looks worse with each passing season. Whereas an unpainted aluminum boat starts out ugly and stays there.
Ah, I remember, if you take your all white hull on the ICW, your white boat will develop a mustache. More money to remove it.
See, another reason not to have an all white hull.
This is hard.
My clever wifey does not like unpainted aluminum either.
I like unpainted because:
She wants painted because it looks good and I agree with her. However, my list over rides looking good as far as I am concerned.
- Low initial cost.
- Low or no maintenance.
- Low future expense.
- Don't care if it gets banged up
- For a power boat, it makes the boat not stand out so much, and maybe look like a government boat, which could be good or bad.
We have been going around and around on this for years but I think my wifey has finally decide that unpainted is bearable. I don't think she likes it, but agrees with the list, for the most part.
I think what has sent her over to the unpainted side, is the idea of having to pay tens of thousands of dollars to paint the boat initially, AND in the future.
One compromise we might make is to paint the above deck structure a very visible color.
It really is a tough decision. To paint or not to paint is a compromise.
Later,
Dan
Here you go.
Still a little bit to do to finish it off.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/boats-marine/motorboats/listing/3272075394?bof=kb36Li2k
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That's a beauty!