Alcanboats Forum

Hi, We have two Volvo 6 cylinder original Alcan engines with Volvo outdrives. We have repowered last summer and the two engines are presently stored at our mechanic's shop. Both were functional and in generally good shape when they were removed. Engines are in the Brockville area. We'll get back to ...

Concerning our deck resurfacing, the project is almost over. It took us 2 1/2 days to scrape off the glue and a lot of elbow grease (and soar muscles afterwards) !!! The glue was pretty hard to get off but the only thing that worked well was to scrape it off, as you guys had suggested. The top deck ...

Thank you all for your replies. Another question: to repaint the deck, what paint did you use ? How many coats ? What prep needed to be done ? How was it applied (roller, paint gun, etc). ? By the way, the teak deck done by Rob looks great. That must of been quite a big project ! We looked at the fa...

Hi, We bought our Alcan boat last summer and we are currently working on it over the winter. There is a very worn out fake grass carpet glued to every square inch of our exterior deck. It looks very bad and we want to replace it with something new (ideally, not another carpet). Does anyone have any ...