[Chad krieger]

So I want to shine up my boat anybody got some good suggestions on what I need to do besides painting it

[19ftCheyenne]

Try some buffing compound and a yellow pad and see what happens.. IF that doesnt make it shinny you might have to cut a layer of that crap off with 2500 then go back to compound and a yellow pad. That should remove the 2500 scratches then do a pass with the grey pad and finishing polish to bring out the shine !!  Put a nice coat of some carnuba wax on it and your should be good to go.. !

[Chad krieger]

Went to west marine and got 3m same stuff ill try later tonight it's too dam hot now thanks guys for your help in Las Vegas

[Chad krieger]

The guy across the the let me use his da only yellow and gray pad do u think I should get a red pad thanks. 

[Chad krieger]

Cool thanks a lot ill try tonight when I get off work

[Chad krieger]

So I got a red pad and started to use it with a spray bottle of water pad turned black and started to polish now do I do the hole float like this then wash all the black off then polish it then wash and then wax it all to seal correct thanks

[jonnygarcia]

I used the red pad with the highest cutting action (#10)  compound made by 3m, then white pad with (#4) polish made by 3m, then just used a normal ten inch electric buffer with regular wax, made my gel coat look brand new.. Everything together cost me about 80 bucks

[Chad krieger]

So this what I am finding out is that the gelcoat is so old that I need to sand it so when I get off at nights I've bin trying to da with compound it's just not cutting it so last night I thought that I would try dry sanding it with some 1000 paper long and behold it worked the tip of my boat looks brand new again so now I will spend the next couple of days sanding then compounding wash it them seal it wash it the wax it. That for your guys help.

[Chad krieger]

Yes this will half to work if u take your hand and rub mine it feels like sandpaper so I used sandpaper to take it off looks great so far but only can do a little bit at night too hot here in Las Vegas so this weekend I will finish It up I hope.

[Horizonjet]

Yes this will half to work if u take your hand and rub mine it feels like sandpaper

That don't sound right....LOL!

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[TrollerDave]

If you haven't yet, do a search of "wetsanding". The subject has been gone through a couple of times and there are some good tips
about it.

edit: you can also look for "colorsanding".

Take some pics of the before and after.