Painting fish on the bottom of the boat

[GringoJohn]

Finally decided to get serious about the underside of the boat! There were some dis-laminated spots on the bottom, so I went out and got some vinyl ester resin and some Kevlar and got the bottom back to new. Let it sit for two weeks with some heat lamps, and then did an epoxy barrier coat by interlux. We did hard bottom paint this time, last year we ran out of ablative before the end of the season and were scratching off shells. We also wet sanded it trying to pick up a little extra speed. The wet sanding discolored the paint a little while it was dry, but we went under and it's all uniform now. I took a shot with the underwater camera and that's the second picture up above. After all that work, thought we'd have some fun, and I bought some red bottom paint to go over the blue and we decided to make some Dorado chasing Bonita! I'm not very artistic, so I let Mike man the brush! Hopefully it'll catch the eye of quite a few big ones!!!

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[SuperD]

My fish:

 

[GringoJohn]

Awesome. That's one of those decals you want above the water line though!!!

 

[SuperD]

What are you going to do when it sounds like someone is knocking on the bottom of the boat from all the big fish ramming into those images? LOL!

 

[GringoJohn]

!!! Hopefully they don't knock themselves out and they find the lures!

 

[Bduck]

Curious, what kind of boat do you have? Size? Only seen parts of a boat when your hauling in fish. Do you have a pic of the boat available?

 

[GringoJohn]

Yeah, here is an older photo. We changed it up a little since, but you'll get the just:

Here is a current picture, but you can't see all the boat...