Can my boats gel coat be restored

[Jomax]

Any pics of it finished?

 

[Whitewater25]

His hands are too tired to type, that was a lot of work!

 

[asap2stacks]

View attachment 50634View attachment 50635View attachment 50636 I ended up taking 600 grit wet sand all the way to 2000 grit them buff that out with 3M rubbing compound with Makita rotary buffer

 

[asap2stacks]

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[Jomax]

 

[damaged442]

Nice Brendella! Lines of that boat are very reminiscent of the Supras of that era. What year? Specs? Definitely don't see too many of them around, that's for sure!

I appreciate seeing the older slalom tugs still getting some love. I have an 89 MasterCraft Tristar 190 and my father just picked up an 81 19 Skier (Stars and Stripes)

As you can see, gelcoats can be brought back from what you think may be dead! Great job bringing that back. Mine was almost that bad when I first bought it 12 years ago. As long as you keep it up, its much easier to maintain, as far as oxidation is concerned.

Follow up all your work with some Collinite 845 or 925 and put that sucker in the water. Post pics after you get it back in the water and in action!

 

[Rsurfer]

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What did you do to the back quarter? How did it come out?

 

[asap2stacks]

He are photos of the final results, I loved how it turned out was a complete 180.

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[asap2stacks]

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[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

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My boat has been sitting for 5 years in the open weather and has built up the oxidation/faded look as seen in the photo. Tomorrow I'm going to paint correction to the hull.

What grit sand paper for wet sanding should I use I was thinking 1200 grit?

I'm going to use my Mikita rotary with a wool pad and Meg's marine compound to remove the wet sand scratches.

Follow up with polishing with my mt300 6" black thin foam pad

And wax with PC using a black hex waxing pad.

Will this work I haven't choosing my polish or wax to use yet I was thinking HD speed but idk if I should test that on a boat or not.

The above process WILL work and I document how to do this EXACT type of gel-coat restoreation in my how-to book.

So for all the lurkers and forum members that will read this thread into the future if you want a step-by-step outline with specific and detailed instructions, get a copy of my how-to book on this topic. The book shows how to do pretty much every boat detailing procedure using Marine 31 products the the techniques shown will work with any quality brand.


Paperback book - How To Detail Boats With Marine 31 by Mike Phillips

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

I have a number of how to reastore boat articles on our Marine 31 forum, here's one...


How to wetsand, cut and buff a gel-coat boat

Here's the "before" pictures to document the condition of the boat before we started this project.

Holograms in gel-coat
The below picture is a full size section cropped out of the above resized picture. The lines you see running back and forth across where the flash from my camera is lighting up the side of the hull are holograms from a rotary buffer.

Don't they say... the color black shows everything?

So that would mean if your process works you'll see it. If it doesn't work you'll see it.

How's the black gel-coat look now?

TONS of how-to info in the actual article here,


How to wetsand, cut and buff a gel-coat boat

 

[Rsurfer]

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Is that a finished photo of the rear quarter?

 

[asap2stacks]

No