I know it sounds blasphemous, but my stripping just doesn't look as good as I'd like (small gaps in a few places with dookie shmutz filler that I couldn't get to match quite right). To cover up my mistakes, I was thinking of painting the hull. Anyone else here done that? The deck looks nice, so I'll keep that bright. From a safety standpoint (search and rescue), I know from experience that flipped over kayaks and canoes that are wood colored are very difficult to find because they just look like a log in the water. Other colors that are bad are blue, green and white. You'd be surprised how much the white hull of a kayak looks just like a breaking wave in a bay with a 30 knot wind.

Just wondering what some of you out there have done.