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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VTCrestliner" data-source="post: 485106" data-attributes="member: 31356">Well, I'm between rainstorms today with about 8 hours in the clear, so I dried the boat first with towels and then with a heat gun on all seams. I masked it, and then mixed up a quart of paint with 4 ounces of the non-skid compound. It looks like very fine white quartz sand, mixed with a light oil of some kind, maybe mineral oil or mineral spirits. It worked well, but had to be constantly stirred while applying.This is a round-bilged boat, not a vee-bottom or flat-bottom, like modern boats. One nice shapely quality i appreciate is the tumble-home in the quarters -- the way the sides roll back in at the stern -- very Fifties style.Every frame in the boat (or I should properly say every floor member) is different and each seems to be stamped with a part number. All of the floors have limber holes at the center of the boat, so water won't sit behind them, but drains to the back if the trailer is set bow-high. Most of the floors are stampings, but two are heavy duty I-beam extrusions, bent to shape. I'm really impressed with the quality of this 63 year old boat. It might as well be two years old from the way it has held up.[ATTACH=full]109920[/ATTACH]I got the painting done in an hour, now fingers crossed the rain holds off long enough for the paint to set. It's drying slowly in this humidity, but I'm pretty sure rain won't hurt it in a few hours.[ATTACH=full]109921[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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