Paint touch up?

Sailkb

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I have an old boat I have spruced up and ready to sail in a few weeks. I registered it and am ready to place decals on the boat. I heat, blow-dried off the old decals and they came right off. However, under that are 'older' letters that were originally painted on. I tried scrapping them but that's not going to work. Take a look at the picture and if anyone can give me a suggestion without painting the whole hull, let me know.
 

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Would a course of wet sanding work? If not you could just paint from the chine to the sheer and skip the bottom.

><> Minas man <><
 
Quick and dirty:

1. Spray paint to cover up the numbers

2. Put on the new numbers

3. Grab a beer to welcome the new season

4. Go sailing
 
I vote with Wavedancer. If you don't like that idea, get some rubber gloves, a rag and some lacquer thinner and try to get them off. If that does not work, I vote again with Wavedancer. BB
 
I have read on other sites that easy-off oven cleaner
might solve this problem, but I never tried this myself.

Sunfish65
 
Easyoff will remove them, but if its on a second too long, your gel turns to well, gel. Done that. I vote for sanding or even buffing with hi cut compound after the stickum is off. If you need to sand, then buff the whole side.
 
Thanks for the replies. I think I will do a little wet sanding, touch up with spay paint and go with it.
 

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