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Standing & Running Rigging and Fitting/Tuning / Re: Rainwater in Bilge
« on: January 19, 2014, 11:21:31 AM »
French boats use bare aluminum hulls (above the waterline) all the time. I have only had one season with the mast stripped of it's black paint. It looks fine. I used aircraft stripper (paint remover) on advice of a friend who said it may have anodizing under the paint I shouldn't sand away. I initially had trouble with the remover. I used plastic wrap to keep the stripper wet on the mast yet it wasn't cutting the paint- especially the tough yellow primer under the black.
It turned out it wasn't warm enough weather. When it warmed up the job went easy-ier.
The bright silver aluminum looks so sharp compared to my spotty black painted spar. I had the boom refinished glossy black a number of years ago so I left the boom black. The mast looked like the camouflage on submarine periscopes before!
For fun I painted the spreaders "Tangerine" like my little '69 911S! Easy to see in a roiling sea and so fun.
It turned out it wasn't warm enough weather. When it warmed up the job went easy-ier.
The bright silver aluminum looks so sharp compared to my spotty black painted spar. I had the boom refinished glossy black a number of years ago so I left the boom black. The mast looked like the camouflage on submarine periscopes before!
For fun I painted the spreaders "Tangerine" like my little '69 911S! Easy to see in a roiling sea and so fun.