Boat Preparation for move to Ocean Village

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Made good progress this weekend, fuel and oil filters changed along with the oil of course.. will be back down soon to service the outdrive. Turned a very sorry looking heavily oxidised hull to something a little more presentable this weekend too. The long list is getting a little shorter:cool:

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still got the topsides to do along with anitfoul and a new yellow strip but very pleased that the blue bits are looking blue again:)

Calshot Spit has served its purpose but boy does it lend itself to runining your pride and joy... the amount of **** that enters the boat from the surrounding area is unreal:(
 
ralf2 said:
What did you use to get that great result,,,apart from elbow grease :)
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4 stage with a high speed, high torque rotary polisher. not your Halfords job..

stage 1: 3M Imperial Compound and Finishing Material using a hard foam pad set at low speed (2) and medium pressure with loads of water. It's a pretty coarse compound so used with care. Purpose was to get rid of the oxidisation.

stage 2: change to a soft polishing foam pad progressively increasing speed until all the above compound had gone leaving a shine.. very light pressure, soft pad used at high speed as the hard pad is difficult to control when the compound dries, risking damage to the surface..

stage 3: same soft dampened pad to cut a finer shine using 3M Finesse-It II Finishing material, again, progressively incraesing speed to full (6) with the purpose of getting rid of the course cut from stage 1 and 2.

Stage 4: changed to a new soft polishing pad to finish off with 3M Marine Liquid Wax... Purpose to finish the shine and protect the surface, water beads off.

Was quite quick to achieve once I got the hang of it... tuther side wasn't so good as I'd not cut away the oxidisation so well starting off with a finer compound at higher speed.. turned out not to be so effective.
 
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Solitaire said:
You lot make me laugh! You'd think you were doing a transatlantic. I can't make a wink, but you know where I'm coming from!
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be fair solitaire......... they are using politician speak for "can i come along for the ride??".... but then again, i would do the same if i was down there !!!!!!!!!!
 
i thought southampton water was quite a voyage david! if it were me i would be sure to call coastguard on CH 16 for a radio check before lodging a passage plan and closing with "Over and Out" :D

Was more meaning, if gary needs a hand moving cars around and of course showing him around the bars of ocean village, i do have insider information of course!
 
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