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| Bob On This |
Posted - 03/31/2009 : 2:06:32 PM
I am getting ready to remove the engines / V drives, holding and water tanks.
I would like to repaint the bilge white or gray.
Does anyone know what Carver put in the 2927 bilge?
It looks almost like a black rubber coating. I would rather have
more light and a white bilge looks better as far as I'm concerned.
I see some products like "bilgecoat" and is a one part paint.
Will this stick to the black "stuff" from the factory?
Thanks
Bob
Diver Down |
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| monterey74 |
Posted - 04/24/2009 : 08:49:03 AM
Bob,
I fully agree that the white looks best when it is kept clean.
As for _keeping_ the bilge clean, I had trouble doing so last season on my Monterey. The lowest point in the bilge is very far forward and deep in the "V" of the hull. The forward bilge pump was mounted 6 or 8 feet aft of the low point, so it was impossible to pump the last 3 or 4 inches of water out of the V.
To remedy the situation, I constructed a "dam" in the bilge about 3 inches high immediately aft of the bulkhead that separates the engine compartment from the cabin. I used a scrap of mahogany and glassed it in and painted it to match the bilge.
Now the water that materializes in my bilge due to shaft seepage and aft deck runoff never makes it under the cabin to stagnate and smell. If water ever gets deep enough in the bilge it can still flow over the dam so that the forward bilge pump can lend a hand pumping it out. So far, however, the only water that I have found in the forward bilge is runoff from my anchor rode. Since the addition of the dam, the forward bilge pump has not had any water to pump out.
The final item in my quest for a clean bilge is the crevice tool that I epoxied into the deepest point of the V. It is connected to a length of tubing that terminates in my forward hanging locker and can easily be sucked out by a shop-vac. All of that stale boat smell is gone from my cabin!
Now if only I had the $ for this... http://www.panbo.com/archives/2008/12/arid_bilge_smells_better.html
Brett
1974 2885 Monterey
1978 2896 Mariner |
| Bob On This |
Posted - 04/01/2009 : 2:56:30 PM
Well, the boat has been sitting for some time, and the hours are quite high, and we want the thing to look new..be new... So most everything will come out, be rebuilt / upgraded, and re-installed. We are also pulling all the carpit and installing the plasitc "teak" flooring.
May remove the pull-out couch and put a couple chairs.
Looking at a couple years before out maiden voyage......
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| Rockmeister |
Posted - 04/01/2009 : 11:30:34 AM
Hey Bob!
RuttRohh!
What ya taking everything out for? 
I know nothing about the black coating in your bilge, so can't help much there.
Possibly try a test spot, let it dry for a few days, then see if gasoline lifts the new paint?
Know what you mean about a clean bilge, mine is grey & really like it.
Doesn't show dirt too bad, yet is light.
Use Simple Green on mine alot, works very well for cleaning the bilge.
(At least until late last year when my port engine started spitting oil into my nice clean bilge...) 
Am in the process of removing the offending engine right now.
79 28' Mariner twin inboard V-drive.
SW Lake Erie: Maumee Bay & The Islands |
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