General comment on polishing gelcoat

[mauryc]

This probably aught ot be in the repairs section and I'm sure most of you know this, but........

My boats original owner put his wife's name on the side of the boat "Crazy Leta" but removed it prior to my purchase. You could clearly see where the stickers were because of the faded, hazing gelcoat. I started with 1000 grit and moved to 1500, 2000 and ended with 2500 before moving to the porter cable buffer with some of the 3m gelcoat polish. No more Crazy Leta. I'd post a pic but its really hard to see the difference with the camera. I mean it SHINES!. Problem is, now I have to do the rest of the boat. One thing it brings out is that boat is truly a light shade of grey (the 88's anyway). Always considered it white, but that was from the oxidation.

Maury