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I finally pick up our boat from storage this weekend and getting ready for our season to start.... I had a time to spare yesterday morning so I cleaned up and waxed our boat. ... My Admiral was making fun of me that I was polishing and waxing under the hull (I was laying down under the boat /trailer on creeper)……
She says why I bother with where it will be under water………. Is it women thing? Or it was her way to saying it is a Mother’s day…. And I should do something other than being under a boat…. Is it me?....I can not figure them out…

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08 H260 VP 8.1Gi DP.....Previous
2013 Crownline E6 Merc 8.2MAG BIIIX, DTS/SC

I believe anything below the water line will wear off after a couple of uses. I usually wax as far below as I can reach, just so it looks nice .

I don't see the problem, you were doing work so she could have a fun summer on the boat

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-Rob.


Current boat: 2011 Yamaha AR210
Previous boat: 1998 Horizon RX 4.3GL SX

I wash, but don't wax, the main running surface.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

Tend to wax as far as I can reach

I wax all the way down the sides, but not underneath. Probably not going to hurt anything, but just to much of a PITA for me to wax underneath.

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2008 H210SS VP 5.7 Gi/SX
2011 Ford F150 FX4 EB

I do what impulse does, but I also hit the part of the V at the bow that gets wet but is not always in the water.

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Paul
2007 Four Winns Horizon 220
Mercruiser 350 Mag MPI w/ Bravo III Drive
2004 Ford Explorer Limited (V8-AWD)
Pomme de Terre Lake (Southwest Missouri)

+1
Same here.

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Rob
2007 Four Winns 180 Horizon

+1

Same for me, maybe 6-8 inches into the water line (while on the trailer) but swimming under the boat with a can of wax doesn't seem to work well

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Optimus Prime
Now: 2007 Horizon 260, (2007/08 brochure boat)
Previous: 1995 Sea Ray Signature Select 220
Tow: '07 Avalanche LTZ
Seattle and Chelan, WA

If you bottom paint your boat, you cut your surface area for waxing down ALOT!

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2008 318 Vista -SOLD, but I am still around!
All Night Long, Seattle WA

I have a total newbie question.... How much above the water line are you suppose to wax? Around the top edge before the side? What about the exposed fiberglass inside your boat?

Jeff

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2009 H180 3.0 Volvo Penta

If it's fiberglass or painted and it's outside the waterline - wax it. But, if you use cleaners like windex to do your windows - when the residuals from overspray get wiped up, your wax will go with it.

i do my best to keep the inside of the boat clean, but I don't wax that area. I wax all surfaces possible on the outside of the boat though.

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2008 318 Vista -SOLD, but I am still around!
All Night Long, Seattle WA

Is it me?....I can not figure them out…

I will have to ask my Admiral when she gets home. She does all the waxing!

Yep!

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Current Boat:
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer "Nauti Luvin'"

Previous Boats:
1999 298 Vista "Seas The Day"
2008 H200SS "Nauti Luv"
2006 Tahoe Q4

I intend to wax my '06 V278 for the 1st time this w/e so need some guidance. This is the plan - let me know if Im going wrong:

1.) Going to buy a variable speed polisher, wax and polish.
2.) Wash boat with warm water and boat soap and let it dry.
3.) Apply wax with rag and then work into surface with polisher (any preferred pad types? -brand names will be no good for me in Asia).
4.) Apply polish and machine into surface. Once again any preferred pad types to finish the job?

Do I wax and polish the none slip surface area's?
My problem is the boat is permanently in a marina so Im going to struggle to get to the hull bits just above the waterline.
Thanks

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Oliver
'06 V278
Singapore

Too busy using it , but when I have it back from up the river ( 160km/100 miles away)for its 100 hour service it will get the works then

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Ardy
Adelaide South Australia
Red H180 3.0 Merc