Start stripping!!!

I found some pretty good tips online on what to do and not do for this weekend.  Sounds like do not plan on scraping and sanding unless you have way too much time and energy (that's not me).  Last fall I took the powerwasher and blew off most of the loose stuff (a lot of the white paint came off the inside quite easily).  Husky makes a pretty good unit for about 100 bucks that you can have all sorts of fun with on your house, car, sidewalk, and your dog.  Just be careful not to use the most powerful stream on anything soft or light plastic (like the rain pants I had on).  See how to strip a boat before painting it from SailingAhead.com.  Another good one on getting a smooth (boat) bottom is "Sand, Blast, or Strip Your Way to a Smooth Bottom" at the Cruising World website.

Depending on how many layers of paint you might have would seem to indicate the type of chemical stripper you want to use.  The label may or may not be a good indicator of what to expect, but there are some that claim to be able to take off as many as 10 layers like Peel Away® at about $50 a gallon.

I'll probably go to Home Depot or Fleet (cool man stores) and pick out a medium priced product with a cool name.  It looks like the inside floor didn't have any kind of super duper paint on it, since the washer took a lot of it off pretty easily.  The varnish on the natural wood maybe a bit tougher to get off.

Anyway, I'll report back soon on the results and some pictures - stripping pictures...  Just remember, strippers get undressed for work!  (you knew something like that was coming, didn't you?)