From 1992 To 2022! 30 Years of SALT!

What's going on today I'm here with my man Andrew from Ace Marine Detailing and we we are going to be wet sanding the hull here. We've got a 1992 boat and it probably has not had wax since 1992 so we're going to be going from 1992 to 2022. So we're going to start at a thousand we could we can go a little bit higher grid but we do a thousand then go up to two thousand that'll pretty much remove the oxidation and most of the imperfections that will probably left behind from the thousand grit that will do our heavy cut. Okay the main thing is getting rid of the oxidation when you actually touch the surface right now it's all chalk. So when we actually wet sand it will make the polishing process cutting and polishing process a lot more effective and you'll get a better result. So that's the purpose of wet sand you can actually do a heavy compound but you're going to actually remove a lot of layer gel coat off there and you're not going to look get that less of a shine that you're looking for and probably that gloss you're going to see the difference once we do the wet sanding versus what it looks like right now. Pretty much knocking off that top layer yeah oxidation with a thousand grit. So once you're done with a thousand we'll go to two thousand up and down you can do circular motions but i try to do to go up and down motion to remove any imperfections that could be there. Okay swirl marks holograms so a thousand and then two thousand now so does it matter if it's on white or colored now when it's when it goes to color hall it's more in-depth process you go through all the stages because you're going to actually be able to see every imperfection right so if you do a thousand grit on a black boat you're going to have to go through all the you got to start from a thousand to fifteen hundred to two or whatever you know correct or you can do two thousand but you're going to require more wet sand to get all the imperfections. Now let's we actually do the cutting compound letting compound take care of most of the imperfections right so now it's pretty much all clean and and that's that's basically it that's the wet sand and now we got a compound to cut it right so we'll wipe it down with some acetone and that will start our cutting compound and then we'll take a look at it to see if it needs any more work but the cutting compound should take care of the rest of the oxidation and get that the trick with wet sanding yeah is knowing how much how far to go okay you can wet sand you go through the gel coat yeah you can wet sand that spot for hours but the thing is you don't need to you just need to take off just enough bad layers on top so when you start cutting with the compound you're not you're not working you're getting a better result with the gel sandpaper to take it off it requires more for the cutting compound to get the same result yeah this looks really good once it's wet not nice and shiny and slick compared to this right here which is all oxidized but that's looking really good like andrew was saying with the cutting you can tell on the side that it's been sanded down you know once it dries out you can see all those imperfections but once you cut it and polish it there's a lot of gel coat there so this is going to look good i mean you can already tell kind of a difference but not as much until we cut and compound the side now what i'm finding is that it's best to get yourself sections of the boat since going up and down and side to side since you're doing that what i've been doing is finding points on the boat to relate how far you've gone so i've been doing like one foot section so i've been using these for a canvas cover that are hooks and i've just been going from here to the middle and that working that section then from the middle to the next one working that section from there to the middle working that section so on so forth all the way down the side of the boat now right now this is just at a thousand grit i have not hit it with the 2000 we tried to put the tape line down here for the bottom um for the bottom coat for the bottom paint but that paint is not really sticking on there so i just let it all fall off and i just kept sanding all the way down to the line now that you've seen how to do it by hand andrew's going to show us the easier way to use a machine and hit it with the 2000 and a thousand in a way quicker manner this is a wet dry paper so you can actually do it dry but it's just better to apply some water now what what do you what machine is that just um orbital sander uh as far as uh the papers thousand grit and uh whenever you're using it if even if you hold a flat there's still some places that you're going to have to get by hand like those edges here and around the through holes right but the important thing with the sander is you can work you know the area pretty evenly and you're taking off just the same amount of layer versus if you press down on one place too hard you take off more than the other so just don't apply a lot of pressure just back and forth up and down motion that'll do it so far from the compound we haven't even touched the polish yet pull that tape off you can pretty much see the difference you can really see the difference now just looking at the reflection here and the rest of the boat this is just the first cut we haven't even doing any polishing or anything like that so here in just a second we'll really see the difference and spread it around that looks just like a mirror that's just a what was that one this is heavy this is a medium but what we're going to do is we're going to go to a polish because uh we got it pretty pretty well uh i would say the surface is corrected don't see any holograms we can actually lock it in with the polish and wax nice all right so the first was a heavy cut let me follow up with a second uh cutting compound to remove imperfections now we're going to do our polish and wax uh and we ended up doing all the steps without wet sanding this would be the process you see the difference i brought this out so i can show you if you did not wet stand you would have to do super duty compound and you'll probably have to do a couple passages with super duty then follow up with heavy to remove imperfections from super duty then follow up with the medium cut to remove imperfect any imperfections that may be left behind from the super duty and heavy then follow up with your light and polish so that's the process but when you wet sand efficiently you take it up to 2000 grit you can actually eliminate either this process and do this or if you're really efficient and you're a professional detailer you can go directly to this process and this process now we're going to lock it in we're going to seal it we're going to make it shine my polish i like to dance a little bit sorry about that guys you have to get personal with the boat so sometimes you gotta get close and get into awkward angles it's okay it's a part of the polishing process you gotta get down low and look to make sure you didn't miss anything usually up under the rubber here all right now we have a mirror take a look at yourself you can see what kind of camera you got awesome now the wet sanding is all done we've moved on to the compounding this side over here has all been cut and polished all the way down to about the middle and you can really tell like i don't know if i can get it in the camera here but you can see any imperfection in the paint or the gel coat once you put that polish on there pretty hard to see through the camera but this side's all looking real fresh now i'm going to move over to the other side and cut while he finishes the compound and the wax on this side i took the tape off