Shine Up Your Superstructure
If your boat’s no longer as shiny as you’d like, I’ve got a solution for you. A lick of paint can do wonders, but painting decks and superstructure (anything inboard of the gunwales) to make them gleam like new can be a costly endeavor at best. As the job progresses and gremlins pop up, you can find yourself spiraling down an expensive rabbit hole faster than you can say “Stephen King.” If you’re of an excitable nature, and/or especially unlucky, you might end up as mad as a hatter by the time the job’s done.
Under a shiny, newly painted surface are hours of nitpicking, knee-crunching, back-breaking, finger-flensing prep work. My advice is to pay the professionals and enjoy the finished product. Your boatyard manager will thank you, and you’ll save hours of mind-numbing toil that will suck up your leisure time weekend after weekend, while other
