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Voyager
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Initially Posted - 11/16/2010 :  18:53:18  Show Profile
<i>Passage</i> has been hauled and is now up on the hard. I found that the fenders and small collisions with the mooring buoy and the dock have cause scrapes and marks in the hull's surface.

My first effort will be to clean the areas with detergent and a 3M pad. If that doesn't remove the scrapes and marks, I plan to use the poliprep finish remover in spots, then reapply poliglow in these areas.

Before I do, however, I wonder whether anybody else has had experience with touching up Poliglow, and how it turned out.

I hope that I won't have to do much to the surface, because aside from these areas, the finish looks as good now as it did last May.
Bruce Ross
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Response Posted - 11/16/2010 :  19:54:25  Show Profile
I use Vert Glass by lovettmarine.com and it has a liquid for stripping an area prior to touch up. I would only do it if there were flaking, otherwise I would simply over coat... after a serious wash. Vert Glass also has a Ph balanced soap.
http://www.lovettmarine.com/vertglas/index.asp
I assume the "restorer" is essentially the same in both products. (I like the Vert Glass applicators much better than the Poly Glow applicator.)
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Response Posted - 11/16/2010 :  20:40:11  Show Profile
Polyglow wants 4-5 coats on bare, aged gelcoat... I'd do 3-4 in the worn areas after removing any marks and stains--each coat covering a slightly larger area--and then a dress coat over the complete topsides. (Make sure it's all clean.) You should be able to do all of that in a few hours.
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Response Posted - 11/16/2010 :  21:36:52  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
Normally when I am getting ready for the Spring sailing season, I will put 2 coats of Poliglow over the existing poliglow finish. I first wash the boat and gently scrub some of the areas where stains, etc did not easily come off. Then there always seems to be the black streaks from rain contamination that the Starbrite Black Streak Cleaner seems to work best. if after doing the cleanings, I still have a few areas that need attention, I break out the Poliprep and go over wider area surrounding those hard to remove stains, etc areas. I doubt the first application of the Poliprep removes all the previous Poliglow coats in that area and so I wind up after final cleaning, just putting on the 2 addl Poliglow coats and it looks fine. I usually do not have many areas that i have to apply the Poliprep and some years, I do not have to resort to using it. Whether I have to use it or not, the best thing about the whole cleaning ordeal is that it is relatively easy and then applying the 2 coats of Poliglow is a very fast an easy proposition. Since I keep my boat in the water all year-round, this is the easiest and best way for me to keep a decent shine on the hull by sliding my butt along the finger slip and working a section at a time. I no longer apply the Poliglow twice a year as I first did. I find that just re-applying it each Spring works out fine.
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Response Posted - 11/18/2010 :  17:16:45  Show Profile
Thanks all for the tips. I will clean, then clean some more, rinse, rinse some more, then poliglow over 3-4 times
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