Pre-season work

[shibbs]

This is quite good timing for me. Scrubbed the boat down, well, jet washed and gave a clean, it didn’t come up overly clean to be honest from sitting through the winter.
There are still marks that will come off with a good soapy wash, any advice on other than that prior to polishing?

I don’t want to polish to clean dirt off unless this is a good way to do it?
It will need a good polish either way as it’s not very shiny at all!

Any advice?

[argonaut]

You can go over it first with a a gellcoat cleaner
http://www.meguiars.co.uk/shop/heavy-duty-oxidation-remover-473ml

This will remove any grime & oxidation, and can remove old wax, and remov3 fade ... they do a more aggressive one if gelcoat is really dull.

[shibbs]

Excellent, thanks very much, will give it a try then see how it polishes up.

[MartynG]

I thought I would be missing the start of the season by having the boat ashore . However we haven't missed much at all. Work in progress - should be all done this weekend.

On lift out


After some cleaning work

[ColinR]

That's a good cleanup job there

Should add a couple of knots.

A good polish up is very satisfying isn't it.

[shibbs]

A really good transformatin there! Looks good.
Very satisfying! I launched today, all going well!

[ChrisH]

I thought I would be missing the start of the season by having the boat ashore . However we haven't missed much at all. Work in progress - should be all done this weekend.

On lift out


After some cleaning work

Looks like new drives. Amazing

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