Gelcoat scuffs

[Cobra25]

I have a scuff or several on the topcoat the shiny bit - Is there a coloured polish to repalce the shine and colour or what should I do? TIA

 

[enterprise]

Buff them out with wet & dry

 

[gjgm]

depends on the scuff ! And the colour of the gelcoat. never heard of a coloured polish i m afraid. If you can feel it with your fingers, you have some work to do. You could try wet and dry, start at 1600-if thats too fine, try 1200 etc. What you dont want to do is start too low a grit or you will just add more scratches that are a pig to get out. But to get a shine you ll need some rubbing cmpound and some sort of polisher.

 

[mikebees]

You can get coloured T-Cut - might do the trick.

 

[aidancoughlan]

Ive got areas with lots of small scratches on my recently purchased Westerly (scratches are so small, they feel smooth & undetectable to the touch), a friend fixed it on his boat by lightly sanding with very very very fine sandpaper, although it took ages. A club member suggested rubbing compound (some posts recommend farecla). My surveyor suggested using bleach on it to clean out the little scratches - they become invisible. Lots of ideas, although I havnt got around to trying any of them yet!