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Posted by member colin on Monday 26 October 2026

As said by Julian, I would carefully remove the worst of the rust using a Dremel or similar and then fine grit paper, touch in affected areas with rust inhibitive primer coat, build up coats to match surrounding. use of fine grit paper to blend with existing, then a final coat of white over the whole thing. I have used 'Smoothrite' paint to very good effect on things like this, in which case you paint straight to bare metal, it bonds with the rust so you only have to get the loose stuff off.

The end result as with all repairs will depend upon the amount of time and effort put into it, the more time and effort, the better the result!

Very time consuming/intensive work but well worth it, perhaps worth doing an initial attempt to see what works best.

Good luck with this.

Col.
Spirit of Lindisfarne
Hardy MS18 PH

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Posted by member Julian Gregory on Sunday 18 October 2026

Ours are corroded too - a common issue and later boats had GRP as I understand it.

My take is that it is only cosmetic and I will rub down, prime and paint at some point. Ours loooks as though that has been done before by a previous owner.

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Posted by member Richard Cain on Wednesday 23 September 2026

Hi,
Has anyone experience of removing the metal door check / jambs on Hardy 36 Commodore.
Mine are heavily corroded.
Arrowed in attached photo.
Thanks

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