wotrock wrote:
"While no paint coat will stand up to scraping rocks the Rustoleum Enamel didn’t fare well in outdoor storage UV exposure. It looked good for a few years, and then lost any gloss and became chalky."
Mine fared much better---no chalkiness.Maybe because mine is mostly in the shade by the side of the house. I am again touching up some bottom repairs and will paint with the same stuff. Somehow the resin that I used a few years back cracked just last year after several good years, so I had to tear/chip it off and refill with resin and Bondo
My outside boats are in as much shade as our lawn allows. I wish it were more, and I may someday rebuild the whole damn 12 slot rack in a shadier spot.
I just finished rolling and tipping the two decked canoes with Rustoleum Topside. Sometimes it is the little things that help a lot.
I had previously been staging platforms for the paint pan, roller and foam brush station at either end of the canoe, to eliminate walking back and forth 16 feed to load the roller, and moving everything from one end to the other once I got half way along.
This time – duh – I put the pan and roller in a wheeled cart, and pulled the cart along with me as I rolled 18” lengths of the hull at a time, which first-coat was all the roller would allow before re-loading with paint. Roll a foot and a half, creep forward, roll a foot and a half, creep forward.
Push the cart away and tip out one side, stem to stem. Repeat on the other side of the hull, and again on the second boat. Two decked boat bottoms, 30 minutes to roll and tip (plus, of course, 2 days of prep work and taping).
Good Lord that simple wheeled cart saved time, and, moreover, helped keep me focused on where I started and stopped with the roller (white on white, kinda hard to see even in good light).
My wheeled dust collection cart now has some paint drips and flecks on the top deck. Don’t care, that was so much easier.
P3170024 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
FWIW I really like that cyclonic dust extractor attached between various sanders and a shop vac, and with everything on the bottom shelf I have the empty top platform available as a painting platform.
https://www.canoetripping.net/forums/fo ... -shop-dust