Found an easy way to wax the bottom of the boat
 

Just turn it over and let my son do it, lol:evilb:

Hahahaha! That be Mississippi style!.....but, thats a weird looking 35 Fountain bottom! :lolhit:

30 Spectre, 1000 grit wet sand, buff and wax. Also fixed a few chips.

Dats ona dem split botum, dubble noched, revrs chime Reely Fast fontains.

It also has secret lifters................:evilb:

lmao

The bottom was etched from someone using Hull cleaner on it. Every time it went in the water it would get stained again. It took me 2 days with help to wet sand and compound it back to a high gloss. I would never attempt to do this on a trailer or even blocks.

Hey when can ya do mine

Anytime, :lolhit:

That is the easier way to wax the bottom. I'm thinking the flipping the boat part (after pulling the motors and draining the fluids) is the bigger trick though.

Drain the oil while your at it.

deck is solid enough to lower it on blocks? no damage?

I have had a friends teenager on a creeper waxing the bottom of my cat. Now hes' off to college. Man I miss that kid.

I always heard that waxing the bottom slows you down

It might, but no stains.:evilb:

It's resting on foam blocks at the point where the supports are under the deck.

I always looked at it as: It may be faster for a little while but eventually (and it happens quicker then you may think) the growth slows you down more. My brother is a very competitive sailboat racer and he has this jelly stuff he puts on the hull.

Just like servicing some women, much easier when you turn them over. :D

:lolhit:LMAO

X missed ya last year at the tickfaw 200, you coming back???

Yes, and this year I'm not going to try and drink all the beer Friday night so I can get out of bed on Saturday, lol

I , so far, have only run in fresh water, but, after leaving the boat in the water overnight it does stain the hull. I will give up a couple of mph to have a clean boat.

All day long!

must be why I missd ya. :D You doing the run both days?? we did last year and palnning on doing the same again this year.

has anyone proven or disproven the wax=slower theory? I'm all for a clean hull too if it doesn't slow me down.

:ernaehrung004::ernaehrung004:I hope so, I have to finish putting bothe boats back together or I'll be sitting at the dock............

Don't know, all my stuff is slow anyway.:evilb:

Cross hatch the running surface with #120 then apply a chit load of Rain-X

those foam blocks
 

were did you get the foam blocks
i can't find them anywhere
thanks

When we get a shipment of flatboats that's what they stack them on.

My experience shows a hull kept in water will still discolor with wax on the bottom.

My father was given a tub of this wax back in the late 80's. It has been sitting on a shelf unused since then up until last year. After being applied to the hull and lower in anticipation of the few days the boat would be sitting in the slip, I was amazed to find that the boat picked up several MPH at cruise and there wasn't even the usual faint waterline stain. A quick wash/rinse and the stuff came off without much trouble at all.

It is the only product of its type that I've seen, and it works as advertised.

Marine suppliers have a 2 part expanding foam. Put a trash bag in a 3x3 cardboard box fill it with an appropriate amount of the liquids, close the box and let it set up, cut the box away and you have a foam block. I bought it from Jamestown Distributors. They have several different densities available. Rich