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I feel it you just charged by the hour it wouldn't be such a rip off

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

So I’ve done interior but I’ve had a customer ask me to restore gel coat etc, where do I start?? lol

Tell me you've never washed dishes by hand without telling me

Im hourly. I don't give estimates. 70$ an hour and I don't stop until the boat is showroom ready. 41 ft solace is are 5k.

I find it best for any detail is to set a price per foot. between 50 to 150. depending on what the need is

Man I wanna do this to my boat so bad but I’m scared! Anytime I’ve ever wet sanded automotive clearcoat it’s been a disaster, seems I can never get the haze out. Maybe gel coat is more forgiving, but when you said you were starting out with 320 grit my heart skipped a beat not gonna lie 😂

Not even 3m

Wow I thought boat detailing in the northeast was expensive! You forgot to price metal polishing and window cleaning and protecting. $5 bucks a foot for a wash is crazy, I feel bad charging 3 bucks sometimes!

Does a buffer machine rotate the same as the DA sander. Or is the buffer an angle grinder with a buffer pad on it?

Cheap..

You forgot the alcohol wipe before the ceramic.

Is it sqaure ft?

320 scares the shit out of me. I don't start under 1000, that's just me and I don't do it for a living but i've owned plenty of old oxidized boats.

I have a bass boat with a bright red sparkly gel coat and it is absolutely faded. 0 shine. The sparkles shine a little but the coat is faded as ever. Can someone point me in the right direction of a good grinder for this? Im guessing i cant just use a milwaukee or dewalt angle grinder? Or maybe i can? Does it gotta be a certain rpm like buffing?

I got told I had to do it by hand... not me out here for 4 hours pushing sand paper by hand 😭😂 hopefully this video helps!

Aqua buff high speed C10 high speed C10 millie w/orange foam remove with orange foam with 6" bigfoot

What heavy cut wax to use on a cutter boat that is chalky? I use aqua buff 2000 then a cut wax then a polymer sealer. Anything that you would change. I was thinking of Stark Level R compound. Thanks for any in put.

What grit would you recommend using to sand down high spots on a gel coat? I just replaced some underwater lights on my boat and the new lights screw holes don’t line up. I filled the old holes with a gel coat but have a couple areas that need sanded. I’m in SWFL too, Port Charlotte.

Good video but starting at 320 grit is way too aggressive. You’re going to take away way too many micron layers of your gel coat after you do this a few times you literally will be burning through it. You can get away with starting at an 800 or 1000 on a DA and then go up from there to maybe a 2500 and buff it off of that This method you’re doing would take way too much time to get rid of all your sanding marks, but that’s just my opinion There is definitely more than one way to do the job. It’s just what I’ve seen work for me over many years. The coarser u go on your paper, the more steps you have to take and you will always have swirl marks left over some places

Hey man did you have an insurance that cover on the water?

Great helpful videos. If a hull is still shiny at the end of the season, do I have to make a compound, polish and wax job or I can only wax? Thanks

Man I need to get my lifted Chevy detailed. I’m afraid of the price

Well damn after reading the comments i feel i stuffed up, I took the name paint off my glass boat with 240gr on a 2 inch drill pad it worked a treat but there's still ghosting, i moved onto 320 then 600 then did the whole side with 800, there's a few small scratches i sanded out with the 800 too, I'm a bit hesitant to polish with that ghosting but am concerned about using the more abrasive discs again. Edit, the boat is 20 years old and white.

hello do you have an email for contacting you? I have a boat and was wanting to send some pictures to you to see what you recommend. Thanks.

Hi, what DA tool and rotary buffer do you recommend for the DIY? I'm not looking to do this professionally but I do own two boats which I would like to bring out the shine. One of the boats, I removed the registration numbers and you can still see them as "shadows" on the hull. This particular boat's hull still has a decent shine but the numbers thing is bothering me and I figured that now that I have the numbers off, it would be good idea to at least compound the hull and I am hoping I can remove the shadows with just compound rather than wet sanding. Thanks in advance!

Ty 😊 I've been looking for something like this ❤

Duh, is this guy teaching generation X, who knows nothing and wouldn't care in the first place.

$4 bottle of Rainex

I would have stopped at at least 1500 grit, even 2000 dry sanding. Dry sanding is quicker, and with a higher grit you will spend less time on the buffer.

Let’s goooo

Excellent information. But I have a question. Before placing the ceramic product thor is it not necessary to clean the surface with a solution of alcohol and water (70/30 respectively) and a microfiber cloth? Or using the triple P product it is not necessary to do this. Thank you

Lol if u power wash and clean the boat before it won’t, will just leave a different color on ur pad bc it’s metal. U must be new, no offense

Finisher life

Ok❤

Wow you could shave and brush your teeth in that shine. Very impressive!!

I know that feeling... Has to be real rewarding in person because its looking pretty sleek in the video.

Wow!

Great Affordable Sander

I want to update the lettering on my ski boat but I'm afraid of the ghosting that will be under them. The hull is white right there though and still pretty shiny for 20 years old. Can I sand out the ghosting on a white section of hull?

What coating are you using?

Do you throw the microfiber cloths away or are you able to wash and reuse them?

How do you like that buffer. I've been wanting a cordless Dewalt. That's the only one we don't have yet.

80 to 100 grand on a boat and to get it to not immediately be ruined by merely existing, gotta spend more money on some bullshit coating.. what a fkin scam.

Boat or as it should be known B.O.A.T. Bust Out Another Thousand

I’m going be honest buying a boat as an investment is like buying a new car as an investment

If I spent that much on an overpriced raft it better come with that ceramic coat

Calling a boat an investment is like calling Joe Biden a competent president.

Anybody else got a fucked up aluminum Jon boat sitting upside down into the drive way that they still use?