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Ok... so I have been dilligently working on this 60' Novatec...but before I go into what I've done to the boat so far, let me preface it with the following crucial information:
The boat hasn't been TOUCHED in 8 months... and it's been sitting in dry dock at a boat yard, where welding dust, grinding dust, sanding dust, gravel dust, bird poo, sun fading, and everytrhing else you can think of has embedded itself into the boat's finish.
I used the pink gel boat wash (forgive me if I don't remember the number for it), and washed the whole boat 3 times... each time, more and more **** was just pouring off of it. I chamois'ed it with one of those "The Absorber" chamois, and got rid of the water spots and some of the streaks.
Then I used the #50 OneStep Cleaner/Wax and got rid of most of the black streaks... from just the front apron. I hadn't even touched the sides, or the rope rail, or the hull yet. 3 1/2 quarts later, I get everything from the rope rail UP, and it looks marginally OK... it looks good from 80' away.
I go back over it with quart upon quart of Flagship Marine liquid wax.... now mind you, I'm about 8 quarts total (cleaner and flagship) of wax down.... and it's all by hand. Now it looks good from about 40' away. I go back over the whole boat with the #69 aerosol Quick Wax... 2 1/2 cans worth.
20' away, it looks good... but I need this boat to look STUNNING, while ON the boat. It's for sale for $610,000... I need it to look like an $800,000 boat.
I think I'm gonna have to cross over to the dark side and learn to use a buffer... but that will have to wait till next week when one of the Meguiar's guys is coming up from Orlando to Jacksonville to help me out with a detailing plan.... but until then, any ideas on how I can make this boat look GOOD without the buffer? Or, did I just pretty much waste the better part of 30 hours on a finish that's all gonna be negated by the buffer?
HELP!
--Evan
The boat hasn't been TOUCHED in 8 months... and it's been sitting in dry dock at a boat yard, where welding dust, grinding dust, sanding dust, gravel dust, bird poo, sun fading, and everytrhing else you can think of has embedded itself into the boat's finish.
I used the pink gel boat wash (forgive me if I don't remember the number for it), and washed the whole boat 3 times... each time, more and more **** was just pouring off of it. I chamois'ed it with one of those "The Absorber" chamois, and got rid of the water spots and some of the streaks.
Then I used the #50 OneStep Cleaner/Wax and got rid of most of the black streaks... from just the front apron. I hadn't even touched the sides, or the rope rail, or the hull yet. 3 1/2 quarts later, I get everything from the rope rail UP, and it looks marginally OK... it looks good from 80' away.
I go back over it with quart upon quart of Flagship Marine liquid wax.... now mind you, I'm about 8 quarts total (cleaner and flagship) of wax down.... and it's all by hand. Now it looks good from about 40' away. I go back over the whole boat with the #69 aerosol Quick Wax... 2 1/2 cans worth.
20' away, it looks good... but I need this boat to look STUNNING, while ON the boat. It's for sale for $610,000... I need it to look like an $800,000 boat.
I think I'm gonna have to cross over to the dark side and learn to use a buffer... but that will have to wait till next week when one of the Meguiar's guys is coming up from Orlando to Jacksonville to help me out with a detailing plan.... but until then, any ideas on how I can make this boat look GOOD without the buffer? Or, did I just pretty much waste the better part of 30 hours on a finish that's all gonna be negated by the buffer?
HELP!
--Evan
All the boat detailers I have watched at the marinas use rotaries on them to get the oxidation off. The results are amazing to say the least!
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