Recomend me a polish

[seeSimon]

I use Autoglym products, starting with car polish to good effect and if the surface needs a little more cutting then their "Paint Restorer" works well. After that, a couple of coats of the Super Resin Finish has proved very durable; I was pleasantly surprised that last year's treatment was still in fairly good condition before I started this year's polishing.

Autoglym works well on my PAINTED (international perfection two pack) very dark blue hull.

 

[gjgm]

Sorry to be a bit of a pedant. While I agree with you 100% about not combining cutting and waxing, I think the term polishing is often misused. As I've said above, I cut, polish and wax. For me polishing is just another word for cutting but normally means something finer.
Allan

I think if you look at boat build,major repairs etc, manufacturers label something as cutting compound because it is going to take off alot of gel! I had a big tub of 3M compounding stuff at one point and it was like wet sand! By contrast 3M Heavy cut is about 600+grit equivalent,maybe.
Some of the better polishes break down into finer particles in use,I think, so limiting the need for too many grades. Probably why they have a shelf life.
Anyway ,enough products out there to keep anyone happy

 

[billyfish]

Thanks all. I've cut it a bit and just got some starbrite premium Polish to seal it with . I don't think there is a definite answer...do you ?

 

[Refueler]

Years ago - pal of mine used to swear by ARMORGLAZE .... after polishing the boat ... he would then apply this ...

It used to be advertised as a 'Showroom Glaze' supposedly used by dealers and Exclusive Car sales ... providing a hard high gloss glaze finish.

I note that there are similar products now - but of course advertising standards have born down on the claims of who 'uses them' !!

 

[samfieldhouse]

I've been using 320 grit wet and dry on my topsides. Followed by 600 > 800 > 1000 > 3000, G3 scratch remover, Simonz polish, and finally G3 resin superwax or August Race Smooth Wax.

 

[johnalison]

I've been using 320 grit wet and dry on my topsides. Followed by 600 > 800 > 1000 > 3000, G3 scratch remover, Simonz polish, and finally G3 resin superwax or August Race Smooth Wax.

It’s surprising what you can get away with. My HR blue line, which is a thin gel layer over white, got abraded badly during a storm when someone kindly removed the extra lines I had put out. The patch was about the size of a hand. I attacked it with 1200 wet and dry followed by various magic potions, and after a year or two I couldn’t find where the damage had been, the line have kept a decent shine.

 

[samfieldhouse]

It’s surprising what you can get away with. My HR blue line, which is a thin gel layer over white, got abraded badly during a storm when someone kindly removed the extra lines I had put out. The patch was about the size of a hand. I attacked it with 1200 wet and dry followed by various magic potions, and after a year or two I couldn’t find where the damage had been, the line have kept a decent shine.

In 1979 apparently they just piled on the gel On fitting a window, the gel in places is 3mm thick. Its come up way better than I ever imagined. 40 odd years of UV had turned it crazed and yellow. She looks great now.