Aluma Hawk Aluminum Boat Paint

Pros: sticks to aluminum, epoxy, or old paint after light sanding.Jon boat green color looks great. Other review that it is brown is not correct. It’s green like olive drab. Gets hot in direct sun so I'm using the white to paint the bench seats on my boat instead of this green.Cons: thins with MEK, which is hard to find and hazardous to your health and fire risk. Low flash point. Eats plastic.It was easy to brush or roll. Spraying would be possible with an all metal gun and large air compressor after thinning with 50% MEK. Your cheap plastic power painter will not shoot this stuff, and cleanup with MEK will melt a plastic sprayer to slag.Wear a respirator. Really. This stuff will kill you with its fumes.Two coats on the bottom of my jon boat used 3/4 of the gallon of paint. I expected more coverage but this stuff dries fast and goes on thick. If I had thinned it it would have been easier to work with and maybe gone farther.Update 5/2020After a year this paint has turned out to be a great product. The other day I came in to the boat ramp at a bad angle and hit the corner hard enough to scrape a line out of my registration number decals. The paint underneath was not scratched off or marked in any way. This stuff is tough. Still looks great. White for the seats was a good choice in the sun- doesn’t get hot and burn your butt. Highly recommend this stuff for aluminum Jon Boats.

Restored a 1999 alumacraft 1442 and used AlumaHawk as my paint. I've never painted with a resin based paint. I thinned it out with 10% thinner (per the label). Even then its thick and tends to get tacky quickly. Rollers made a mess, brush was easier. Keep it wet as you lay it on, remember, it gets tacky. Im 80/20 salt/fresh and so far, this paint is very durable, some scuffs but nothing has made it to metal.

Good quality paint here. Sprayed on my 14ft Jon. Needed up needing 1 gallon and a 1 pint for the whole thing. I let it dry for about 5 days before I put it in the water. I didn’t have to mix it with anything to thin it out.

Painted a used Jon boat and the finished product looks great! It took a few days to fully cure, but once cured it is exceptionally tough. Well worth the money.

16' Smoker Craft Alaskan, HLVP spray gun, 1.8 tip, MEK thinner @ 10%, 29psi at gun. 84oz used on inside and outside 2 coats each, 168oz total. Had cans shook at paint store, then stirred for 10 min. Used paint strainers for filling gun. Sprayed in booth. Sprayed out nice, covered well, green color as advertised, flat finish. Finished surface is not smooth, allot of solids in finish. Don't know if that finish is normal, will contact vendorUpdate- no response from vendor. Mixed next batch 4 to 1 ratio, (paint to MEK substitute), 25 PSI at gun, Sprayed out much better, no solids in finish, finish is not smooth but i think that is just how it is.

I had a few small leaks in a 1967 model aluminum boat. I coated the bottom with an spicy resin, and painted the inside with this AlumaHawk paint. It goes on nice and heavy, dries pretty fast, and has seemed quite durable. It’s been on there for several months and no sign of a scuff or crack anywhere.

This paint is great it plys good I used a roller and a brush. I used it to redo my 2003 boat it needed new paint and I know this paint is expensive but I have had it on the boat for over a year and it holds up great. I will use it again

Easy to use make sure to prep surface and roll on works pretty well