wet sanding
 

hello everyone a friend of mine owes me some money, and he saw my new boat and said he would wet sand my boat and polish it too repay me. apparently he used to work for a company that did this. he owes me about $ 500 does this sound like a good trade? the boat is an 87 so there are some stains and surface cracks inside.

Well if he is a professional that would be worth the money for inside and outside. The finesse system is the ticket, with 1500 and 3000 paper on a orbital sander with water applied. If the boat is really porous you can use 1200 then follow up with 3000. Their is even 5000 available. After this then comes the fine compounds and polish along with the special foam pads. Yes it is a little complicated but not for someone who has did this.OH, after thats done wax with the best marine wax and it will last all year.Fiberglass is amazing material it will come back in most cases and hold up with a little care!:nice:

For a good detail job as Step Up described IMO, yes worth it. IF he knows what he's doing. Its pretty labor intensive but well worth the time to do.

considering he's owed me the money for quite some time I think I'll let him work it off I wanted to change the name of the boat anyway right now it's called miss Stephanie heard a lot of nonsense online about boat name changing ceremony any of you ever done such a thing

I always prefer cash to a shiny boat. :money:

But...if he does a good job, and is unlikely to pay up anyway, might as well go for it.

lol yea don't think I am going to see any cash from him so Saturday I think he is wet sanding :rain:

There is quite a lot of "lore" about how you should never ever change the name of a boat, and then it goes on to say that if you do change the name you first must do a certain ceremony. It's all hogwash. I mean, it's fun and all, but really, there's nothing to worry about. I don't think I've ever kept the name that came with any boat that I've owned, and absolutely nothing bad has ever happened by changing it... and that's more than two dozen boats over 40 years.

There is however, one exception to this rule. If for example, your wife's name is Jane, and you change the name of the boat to ...say... Susan... something bad probably will happen. Otherwise, you're good to go.

If you "really" want to carry out a ceremony for the fun of it, the following will point you in the right direction.

http://www.bluewatersailing.com/docu...ngceremony.pdf

There are other's, but I particular like method number 3, as outlined on page two.