LuvBoating
Senior Chief Petty Officer
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Since the other Thread "Paint Is Faded" is at least a year or so old, I decided to do an add-on to it. Why? Because we've done the vaseline and the restoring compound/polish/buffing (electric buffer) thing.
Our boat is a 1992 20 ft. Cuddy Cabin. It has a wide maroon strip that goes all the way down the side of it and it's pretty faded. The rest of the boat is white and not nearly as faded. We tried Maguires compound-polish and buffing thing on the maroon strip, with very little results, but definitely had some achy muscle pain later! We are in our mid 60's, which means we shouldn't be using our muscles that way anymore
. After we heard about the vaseline thing, we tried it on the maroon color and it sure made it shine..........just like new! Didn't take nearly the rubbing that the coumpound/polish did nor holding/using the buffer did. We hand buffed it and that was fine.
Now, the downfall of using vaseline, after it rained, some of the faded/streaky spots did come back.
Recently we had to buy a bottle of Attwood Premium Clearner Wax from Wal Mart. Yesterday, we grabbed that, some rags and our electric buffer and headed to the boat. Wife applied the Cleaner Wax and I done the buffing on both sides of the boat's maroon stripe. With the sun out, and looking from the bow down the side of the boat, the maroon color looked great, BUT looking straight at the maroon strip, we could definitely see faded out vertical streaks in the paint yet. Wife looked at me and said "Going back to using the vaseline on that stripe........way too much work for the way it looks!" Had to agree. Now, we will try the Cleaner Wax on the white part of our boat, but if that don't shine up enough, that will get the vaseline as well.
At our age, using the vaseline sure seems quicker with very-little-to-no pain/achiness in the muscles later.
Our boat is a 1992 20 ft. Cuddy Cabin. It has a wide maroon strip that goes all the way down the side of it and it's pretty faded. The rest of the boat is white and not nearly as faded. We tried Maguires compound-polish and buffing thing on the maroon strip, with very little results, but definitely had some achy muscle pain later! We are in our mid 60's, which means we shouldn't be using our muscles that way anymore
. After we heard about the vaseline thing, we tried it on the maroon color and it sure made it shine..........just like new! Didn't take nearly the rubbing that the coumpound/polish did nor holding/using the buffer did. We hand buffed it and that was fine. Now, the downfall of using vaseline, after it rained, some of the faded/streaky spots did come back.
Recently we had to buy a bottle of Attwood Premium Clearner Wax from Wal Mart. Yesterday, we grabbed that, some rags and our electric buffer and headed to the boat. Wife applied the Cleaner Wax and I done the buffing on both sides of the boat's maroon stripe. With the sun out, and looking from the bow down the side of the boat, the maroon color looked great, BUT looking straight at the maroon strip, we could definitely see faded out vertical streaks in the paint yet. Wife looked at me and said "Going back to using the vaseline on that stripe........way too much work for the way it looks!" Had to agree. Now, we will try the Cleaner Wax on the white part of our boat, but if that don't shine up enough, that will get the vaseline as well.
At our age, using the vaseline sure seems quicker with very-little-to-no pain/achiness in the muscles later.
