Marinette Boat Forum

Sure, you can paint over old paint. Just a waste of time to put new paint on old paint that is flaking or peeling. Same for painting directly on aluminum. It has to be done right or it will not stick.

Do you need new anodes? If so order them from Boatzincs.com They have the best prices and they will know exactly what you need. Then if you are going to change anodes you can slop paint on the old ones and it won't matter. Then just sand, paint and then change the anodes. Go to a welding supply and ...

Wait until it is warm enough to paint, paint early in the day so it dries before night time. If you are just spot painting find out what the paint manufacturer recommends to do. You always want to use a stainless steel brush or sandpaper for cleaning. If you only clean off the bottom paint and there...

Do you have the metal track for the sliding windows? If you have the plastic it is probably ruined by the UV. So you have to find something. Hard to find the metal, but worth it if you can find it. I would start looking for that so it is not a hold up later. Everything else is just money and man hou...

I put anti-static wicks on airplanes but I don't think my metal boat sitting in two feet of saltwater will build up a static charge. I would be leery of clicking on any of those links.

Don't forget you can cruise on one engine. You don't go twice as fast on two, but you burn twice as much gas. I've been surprised how little speed you gain with the second engine. We do a lot of trolling on one and then use two when we're ready to go faster.

Sounds like someone's boat left at his shop and being sold for storage fees. Might be a deal at the right price.

I would say cracked welds are a possibility but rare. Most likely in a bad factory weld. These hulls are built very stout and have very little flexing so you will have very little stress cracking. The boat for sale sounds like someone got the boat that doesn't know anything about it. Now they are tr...

Good, you have narrowed down the problem to no spark. This is an automotive distributor, look at a Motors manual (your library will have them and make you a copy of the pages you need ) or ask at a NAPA store for an info sheet, it will have a lot of info for you. Get a spark from the coil first and ...

Find out if you have a spark ! Just pull the center wire off the distributor from the coil. Place it 1/4 inch from the block or some other grounded part. You might want to hold it there by weighing it down with something. Crank the engine and watch for a spark. Then pull off any flame arrester / air...