ae21 paint

**Oz Dude** · 03-19-2009, 05:59 PM

ae - I don't know much about your insurance laws but the contractor has a duty of care to you as well as having to carry his own insurance for damage sustained to property through negligence... It shouldn't matter if it was a performance boat, a fishing boat, or a damn remote control boat, they broke it, they fix it!

Don't get mad - get even - and get what's owed to you.

As for your paint work, candy is repairable but you need to know everything about when it was painted. Admittedly, all the clear over the top will make that more difficult. Perhaps you could revisit te paint scheme and look to see how you could use a highlight colour or some graphics to cover up the damaged areas.

Good luck mate.

Oz

**ae21** · 03-19-2009, 08:32 PM

Thanks..

I have been looking into how i could repair it but .... the boat was painted gold then three shades of silver and then taped off then painted again the candy and then wet sanded over and over again inbetween 12 coats of clear..the damage is quite deep in spots..so i am looking at all alternatives to salvage the work...I have contacted the orig painter and he doesnt want to attempt the repair at all..

Now i have to find someone with knowledge who can or completely start over again..as you can see below the deck is also painted as well...the graphics under the candy that are not seen in the pics are in the gold beneath the silver and transparant candy....Its spectacular in the sun because they pop!! the gold under is a flame pattern with more skulls....

I am awaiting the adjusters arrival on monday..in the mean time i have been stripping the boat of everything..the stereo is done and so is the subs as they were frozen in ice and water...I am sick to my stomach everytime someone brings it up to be honest...its just heart wrenching three and a half years of HARD work ...by the way the floors are now also in a half moon shape as well....im hoping they arent runined as well from the ice??

**ae21** · 03-19-2009, 08:41 PM

here are some of the process after the gold and silver paints have been applied...first base color was white ......

**Oz Dude** · 03-19-2009, 08:43 PM

I really feel for you ae. I know what it's like to put so much time and effort into your boat, only to have some moron screw it up.

I have been there a couple of times with mine so far (apparently getting totally gutted once by unscrupulous operators wasn't enough for me - I had to take a second shot at getting it in the head) and it really just makes your stomach turn.

Get everything stripped out, do what you have to do with the adjuster, and walk away from it for a week. Let your mind settle and then focus on the new job at hand and that is - how do I make my boat rise to the top again. On the bright side, you've now gone through the process once so you understand what's going to be involved. That in itself will help make the task less arduous.

Just remember - where would we be if the inventors of WD 40 gave up at attempt 39...

Keep Punchin!
Oz

**ae21** · 03-19-2009, 08:47 PM

you can see the effect the gold has when the flash of the camera goes off...

**ae21** · 03-19-2009, 08:49 PM

haha i like that statement..lol..

**samari** · 03-19-2009, 08:55 PM

That is one of the top 5 best pain jobs I've seen on anything.

Sorry for your loss, but as mentioned it can be fixed.

**ae21** · 03-19-2009, 09:04 PM

Thanks so much everyone..i appreciate it!!

I just wish there was someone else that could take it apart aside from myself...its killing me to do this ...pulling up brand new carpet and ripping the interior back out ..man..just flipn shoot me...lol

**Oz Dude** · 03-19-2009, 09:06 PM

ae - glad you liked the analogy and also good that you smiled. That's all you can do now, clear your head, smile in the work that you already accomplished, and now make it better.

When I had the bottom of my boat repainted, they managed to scratch it in another area, leave overspray down both sides (which I found when doing final rigging and spent 12 hours with a razor blade on each side), created a 4 runs - 2 from where they clearcoated the deck along the edge, and 2 at the transom that also had to be repainted, AND left the boat outside in a rain storm, uncovered, with my brand new carpet in it...

That carpet ended up getting soaked not once, not twice, but 3 times at different workshops before I got the boat back to fit the seats up. I don't know how hard it is for contractors to understand that the cover on it at the time wasn't waterproof and the boat was to be stored undercover. They just shrug their shoulders and walk away. The punchline though was that after I got the boat back and wet vac'd the carpet, and then spent hours drying it, THE very first race we entered in came complete with rain all day and the boat ended up saturated. Like I said dude, all you can do is smile...

samari - nice slip up but definitely true in this case "top 5 best pain jobs..."

Oz

**samari** · 03-19-2009, 09:11 PM

oops!

**baja200merk** · 03-19-2009, 10:01 PM

you cant take them to court?

what if you were towing it when it happened, delete this thread go down an empty road with the bow eye unclipped and get ur money back for the paint

**king gill** · 03-19-2009, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by baja200merk

you cant take them to court?

what if you were towing it when it happened, delete this thread go down an empty road with the bow eye unclipped and get ur money back for the paint

Hahahaha...The american way right there

Thats some good thinkin

**Oz Dude** · 03-19-2009, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by king gill

Hahahaha...The american way right there

Thats some good thinkin

As opposed to the Aussie way - that's where you take a sledge hammer to it and say it was a hail storm

Oz

**ae21** · 03-20-2009, 08:48 AM

Thanks oz...your boat is wicked by the way!! I guess we will wait it out and see..i have decided to walk away for a while and let my jets cool a bit about all this ...so i guess you will see me open this thread again when i me ready..

**Oz Dude** · 03-22-2009, 07:16 PM

Hey ae - thanks for the props on my boat. I've put a lot of hard work into it twice now and like you, lived and breathed every minute of it. When things don't go how you want or others don't treat your stuff with the same respect you require, it gets very very hard not to go postal on em.

I can remember when I first bought mine. I was so excited, I picked it up, took it straight to the lake and put it in to try it out. Damn thing wouldn't come off the trailer. I had it almost completely underwater and stood there scratching my head. Then it dawned on me - the tie down straps were still on the back

I waded in (I had it in a looong way) and was up to my chest trying to get the stupid things off.

I could have pulled the boat out and done it but I figured I'd already made a big enough idiot of myself, I didn't need to look like a bigger one by showing those that had gathered what I was doing other than "secret boat stuff"

When it came time to start work on it though, wow there were some big disappointments along the way. Old sponsors names had been "knifed" into the gelcoat on the deck, damage that wasn't disclosed by the previous owner (turned out the boat had once been flipped by the first owner, and the guy I bought it off tore half the dash out when the boat turned left at 80mph and he didn't...), and many things that were literally held together by a screw and some 100mph tape...

A 6 week rebuild turned into 6 months and the trimmer (friends of mine) who did the interior from scratch turned to me one night, put his hand on my shoulder, and said "That's enough. Go start enjoying it" and that's a very pertinent piece of wisdom I still carry in my head with me when things aren't going right, especially during the crap I've been through with it over the past 2 years.

It's also the one message I'd like you to carry with you once you decide to pick up the tools again and go back to your boat. Things may not always go as we plan, and sometimes it seems that all of out hardwork is completely ignored and spat on by others who just don't give a rats ass, but at the end of the day we can only do what is possible with the tools we are presented, so make the most of what you have, salvage what you can, rebuild what you can't, and even if it's not perfect - go start enjoying it!

Keep us updated

Oz

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