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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clc442" data-source="post: 511855" data-attributes="member: 32047">I started tearing the boat apart in late August, figuring I had all winter to work on the boat.  This entire seemed to be put together with rivets.  I had to chisel the heads off about 100 buck rivets to get all the storage boxes and seats out.  Now my boat has a lot of holes in the hull that hopefully I will be able to put in watertight rivets.  All the sub floors that were not exposed to sunlight were rotted.I pulled the carpet and drilled out the rivets  and pried up the floor.  The boat has always been stored in a garage as far as I know.  The pour foam looked to be in good condition so I was very tempted to keep the foam, but I made the correct choice to remove the foam.  Once I got all the foam out there was some corrosion and pitting on the hull.  I've hit it with a wire wheel brush and on a drill to remove the corrosion and last of the foam.How do I neutralize this rust to stop it and do I need to paint it with some primer?  I have done a little searching and think Alumahawk paint might work.</blockquote>