Aluminum Boat Paint Job

[greenmonkey51]

I have my dad's old 78 starcraft 14' boat. Its served its purpose well, and really its a good boat, but its ugly. I want to paint it up and looking good. I'm going to power wash it good and run a wire brush over the whole thing. Then I'm going to use POR metal ready which should provide a good base primer. I'll paint is using Rustoleum professional gloss. Finally I'm thinking of getting some cheap gold metal flake and throwing it in rustoleum automotive clear coat and trying to see if I can get a sparkly paint job. I'd prefer throwing the metal flake in the regular paint and not doing the clear coat. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Stumpy1]

That will look sweet. I had the exact same boat and used the spray-on bedliner for the bottom half of the boat. I always fish next to dams, submerged rocks and trees and it held up really well. You can get it in any color.