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Update, acid washed again to remove streaking, and scrubbed with a scotch bright pad in the areas that were streaking the worst. Hull looks very uniform and coloring nicely. 
 transom looks like crap. Lol. So will scrub transom with scotch pad and repeat until it looks as good.

Yeah, I've come to peace with it. It's a boat, not a show car. The ugly protects the beauty,  my kids can polish it when I'm dead and increase the resale to the uneducated.    damn it just looks soooo damn good at the bottom of the hull, like someone sprayed with graphite! Dark grey and gorgeous! Gi...

Will the oxidation eventually become uniform? 1st trip out the bottom of the hull was a nice dull darker gray, above was pretty spotty and stripy. I guess patience is the order here. Oxidation is good, right?
Lol hoping didn't mean a mistake. Boat costs more then my 1st mortgage!!

Currently being told im an idiot on Facebooks AL boat page....

20220731_103249.jpg   20220731_103217.jpg   7 months after delivery,  I acid etched my hull, fish boxes and anchor locker.  Put some uhmw strips on the carpeted bunks.  got some acid in hull, but probably not enough to be very effective,  will pull the floor in a couple years to do inspection and s...

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Aluminum trailer probably needs to get same treatment.
Also soon as I get it off the trailer, going to get some plastic bunk slides, shoot em over the carpet. Can't remember what brand they were, not the wraps, just thick strips.

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Got her home, but still waiting for a kicker.
Once it warms up a bit ill get busy with some acid.

sold on the wash to remove scale, absolutely convinced. Now the question is how do I get out of the bilge? flood it with acid mix, drive around block, slam on brakes, test torque of new 7.3 gasser by racing Honda Civic between lights, rush home and rinse?

One of the owners is really amazing and approachable. I would not expect this kind of personal interaction from any of the other major builders in my area. (Except maybe Wooldridge?) He has reached out a couple if times before I pulled the trigger on this boat, which really sealed the deal for me. A...

No pics for 6 months, when she's done. Thank you for the response, been searching and asking all over. Only thing I could get was, why? I belive it was searching and reading on this site that steered me toward this. Now I can spend the next 6 months fretting over other stuff, soon I should be to the...

Been searching all over hell to breakfast and looking to see if I have this correct. Bringing home a brandy new AL boat. (220 pro fisherman) I don't want a polishy mirror hull, just good old greyed out AL. So the first thing I should do then is make sure I giver a good shot of alumabrite or other ty...