Hull Stripes

I'm thinking about repainting my SN and getting vinyl stripes.

I have a '74 with painted '78 stripes, the stripes are not great and the paint has a few stress-cracks and so-on. Just really needs a pick me up.

Has anyone replaced the painted stripe with vinyl? I guess I would have to find a local vinyl decal place to make the stripes and install (I can't find any on line anywhere).

Oh boy you are asking for a heap of crap from these guys by thinking vinyl. A good vinyl tape from a great shop can make it look good from up to 5' away. Closer than 5' you can tell. Don't forget the black shadowing. A PO re-did my stripes some 8+ years ago. They still look good. Would I do vinyl? No, only bc it's not original but I couldn't turn the boat down so the vinyl wasn't a deal breaker since stripes and font matched perfectly. There's a trick to doing the vinyl, make the arrow point down so the curvature of the hull doesn't make the vinyl make a radical curve

Orlando76 wrote: If that's your current boat, that's an '80 and '81 scheme.

+1

There was recently another post (Craig's List finds) where the guys spoke about the problem with vinyl. This post was within the last few days. The side of the boat has several compound (?) curves. It is hard to take a picture and have a decal produced that will handle the several curves near the front of the boat.

Best bet is to find a 78 boat and draw a stencil and have a sign shop make a Gerber Paint Mask and repaint with Rustoleum Paint. This is what the factory did back in the day.

Any stripe guy that has been around for a few years can make the curves.......

nautique74 wrote: I want to refresh the gel coat and repaint the stripe with a clear over all of it but $$$$$

Clear coat the whole boat? Yikes, that's the wrong way to do it as well. Good thing you found ccf before you did some real damage to your boat .

Refreshing the exterior (the proper way) is not very expensive, just labor intensive and time consuming.

Orlando76 wrote: And somebody in GA is selling the vinyl stripes on eBay. As to the quality idk. I just looked at your profile pic. If that's your current boat, that's an '80 and '81 scheme.

That guy has removed his unlicensed items.   

I called a local marina that does gelcoat refinishing and can paint the stripes.

I haven't taken the boat there yet, for him to look at and give me a price. I told him I want to remove the stripe and repair any surface cracking and a couple of chips and go back to the original stripes.

I'll let ya'll know!

nautique74 wrote: I told him I want to remove the stripe and repair any surface cracking and a couple of chips and go back to the original stripes.

What are the two tube things above the loading platform?

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Pulsation dampeners for the speedos. There are PLENTY of threads about them!!! Did you ever bother to follow where the tubing goes???? [/QUOTE]

My boat don't have the "dampers" but I've seen where some holes have been patched and the stripe painted over.

I didn't know what the holes where for, then I saw the dampers in the photos.

My tubes go from the pickups through the hull to the speedo's