bottom of the boat

[Deep C]

I'll have to dig up the pics but yes they do work... Right now i'm about 60 hoo shapeed silouhettes on the bottom. I am careful to not make them too realistic as I have actually been doinked by billfish a couple times... I run the shapes in micro pods of like five to nine in a pack. On the transom I have even incorporated shapes that look like aft views of baits... I use omc lower unit silver antifouling paint for the. That way there are no grass issues on the painted spots...

[thejack]

Hey deepc, next time your boat is out, take some pics for us.

Or if anybody has some pics that would be great.

[Sea Draggin]

Next time your in Wanchese, just go through the boat yard down at the end past Broad Creek marina. You will see all kinds of stuff painted on the bottom of boats.

[Deep C]

When I first got her she had a balck bottom and it was at a time of year for both pilchards and bally hoo to be around. I just did slashes in green ablative paint. That kind of pait just wears off so it was temporary but something I insist on doing. Gotta brack up that background period end!

[rich]

Now my artistic skills will let me do that right there. But that is about the extint of those things.

[Deep C]

The ones now are a bit more fish like... Silver on a blue background... Thta OMC pait was spray type and shot over a stencil I made by tracing a fish on cardboard and cutting it out .

[rich]

There is a post on here for silver reflective stickers for the bottom of your boat. How do you think the stickers would hold up running and all? It is in the post from Miles

[Miles Offshore]

I think if you trailer your boat and have a clean bottom those sticker things might work pretty good, since the prism paper might do some flashing etc. (i think). if you leave your boat in the water naturally they would get sea growth on them in a couple of days. if you cant reproduce a flash like i cant then i think just go for contrasting colors- giving the appearance of a shadow from down below. On a side note- we were also painting our wheels for a while, flourescant pink and/or green-

[hotrodmarlin]

We painted one blade on each side fluorescent green on a charter boat I used to work on. We got eaten up so bad by the barracuda afterwards the owner had the boat hauled out just to clean the paint off the 2 blades.

[tolmaz]

Man....this sport is a disease!!