If you plan to keep the boat for a while you might want to look into
having a professional paint the entire boat. It might cost as much or
more to do so than a 20-year old Bayliner is worth, but you'll have
the nicest one anywhere around. Like most things boat related, the
expense wouldn't make any real sense, but if (only if) you expect to
own the boat for several more years and want to take some pride in it
in the meantime painting an older boat can be worth it. You'll get a
small portion of the painting price back at resale time, but not
enough to justify spending the money, from a purely financial
perspective, in the first place.

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Its a 1952 (about 18 actual feet). The stripe is about 6" wide on either
side of the bumper molding. I had every intention of painting it a glossy
blue with a 2" wide brush & trying not to leave any drips. :-)! pretty much
anything I do will look better than the flaking chipped up auto paint on it
now! I paid a little over 3k for it & plan on using it for many years.
There's not enough water around central Indiana or enough time in my
schedule to justify much more then that.