Polishing/waxing help

[eastont]

I have just gone over my boat hull using 3M rubbing compound, and now I'm in a quandary. A friend has told me I now need to go over the whole thing again with a polish before waxing....
Is he right?

 

[RWilson2526]

Re: Polishing/waxing help

Agreed...I just finished using the 3M rubbing compound and it looked awesome...I started the Finesse It polishing compound and for all the extra work I really couldnt see the difference. If your rubbing compound didnt leave any swirl marks that you can see I'd just wax it and be done with it.

 

[Jeepster04]

Re: Polishing/waxing help

There are two different types of polishes. A pure polish that just puts oils back into the gel coat and a polish that has abrasives in it. If the gel coat looks great and doesnt appear to have any swirls in it then you can either apply a pure polish to help keep it from oxidizing or just wax it. Its up to you.

Here is an example of a pure polish(No abrasives):

http://www.autodetailingsolutions.net/m4516.html

Here is a compound:

http://www.autodetailingsolutions.net/m4516.html

Then this would be considered a light polish(some abrasives):

http://www.autodetailingsolutions.net/m4416.html