How in the Heck do you clean your Hull!!
 

Hey Guys, Looking for creative ways to clean and wax my hull. My boat sits on a trailer and is too low to get at the whole thing.

Any Thoughts??

The parts of the hull that are not reachable should not be waxed as it will make you slower. I wax the bow and hull sides not the actual bottom. I use on/off which is acid to remove any colorization and magic eraser for any scum line. That's it.

X2 I never wax the bottom of the hull, I do however polish it. The best way I found to do it is get one of your boat whore friends to get his azz under the boat and use a little elbow grease. LOL

Great answer. I misspoke earlier I don't wax my hull either just clean and polish. Does anyone use a lift or anything like that?

27' Fountain by the way

Take it down to your local boat dealer or marina. for a couple hundred dollars, they will lift it off the trailer and have one of their hired hands give it a good cleaning and buffing. And if it hits the ground it is on them, not you. I am having mine done right now. Tired of laying under it wiping river water stains off with acid.

And while they have it, it is a good time to do any trailer maintenance that you have been putting off. bearings, carpet, paint etc.

I use a pump sprayer from Rural King with a diluted solution of Walmart Hull Cleaner and water. Walk around the boat, spray on, hose off. Ohio River stains (and all of the other contaminants that we swim in) usually come right off with the water hose pressure.

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Thanks Guys for the good advice.

[QUOTE=Poker~N~Run;3650111]The parts of the hull that are not reachable should not be waxed as it will make you slower.

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SLIMEY GRIMEY. You can buy it online. Its chep. just mix it with water and spray it on the yellow stains on the bottom of your boat and it will run rt off and be white again. Its good stuff!

On-Off works good but dont breath it in!
http://www.jamestowndistributors.com...ct.do?pid=2339

Since I`m in HVAC I use coil cleaner, was amazed how great it works, its acidic. Now I`m worried about having the stains come back so much faster thou..

On my old boat thats what seemed to happen more acid the quicker it comes back especially in brackish water.. I try to wax the front deep vee it keeps it white, i leave the far bottom a lttle yellow

[QUOTE=Jeff P31;3650305]Somebody got that. :evilb:
you shouldn't wax the part of the boat that is considered the running surface.

[QUOTE=Poker~N~Run;3650664]Well, he's right. You would be better to take some 400grit sand paper to it than wax.

[QUOTE=Poker~N~Run;3650664]How much slower will it make you?

[QUOTE=TC G;3650814]A friend of mine lost 2mph until it wore off.
You want the bottom of the boat to have a rough feeling. You want to create bubbles that aerate the bottom. My boat being an f1 race boat was sanded on the running surface.
The wax makes the water sticky and it holds to the surface.

Do you know if this stuff is acidic? I don't want to create a problem where the staining comes back sooner and sooner.

[QUOTE=Poker~N~Run;3650844]That would be great on a race boat .Then again if it is aired out to run there is only a few feet of the hull in the water anyway. But I think I will give up the 2 mph . But maybe that's why my 1996 looks as good as it did the day it came out of the show room . just saying

Power One by Fountain of Youth. Smokes any acid-based product I have ever used.

http://www.fountainofyouthrestore.co...wer_One_1.html

I will give up a couple mph for a clean boat

I waxed the bottom of my Cigarette Top Gun and gained 4 mph. It was my best speed in 8 years. The water was rough.
I guess when the water is rough , you don't need bubbles.

+1,000,000 Spray on hose off. Best $26 bucks i ever spent on the boat.