What is the hot product for sealing toons?

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What is the hot product for sealing toons?

#1 Post by BiXLL » Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:24 am

I was planning on using Sharkshide after polishing this year. I have run accross a couple products I have never heard of before and am wondering if they might be a better choice. Alumetron, and Top Coat. Anybody have any experience with these?
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Re: What is the hot product for sealing toons?

#2 Post by Bamaman » Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:16 pm

Not me. I just polish my toons yearly first of June.

I tried to use Sharkhide, but could never get the aluminum oxide off the toons. That alone is a tough job. It is easier to just polish it again.
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Re: What is the hot product for sealing toons?

#3 Post by BiXLL » Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:36 pm

Does the Polish last the season? My boat stays in the water
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#4 Post by Bryden24shp » Fri Mar 16, 2018 5:53 am

It will last several seasons and is easy to re-apply. The next coat will dissolve the first coat and makes them look like the first application. I swear by Sharkhide. I had the ToonBrite on the first Manitou (factory coating) it was on the first and replacement set of pontoons. That stuff wore of fast and gave the toons a tarnished look. That's why I polished them, then polished them on the next 2 boats. If you polish them, use lacquer thinner in a pump up sprayer with a metal wand and end (it will destroy a plastic one, fast) to get the polishing residue, off.
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#5 Post by BiXLL » Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:29 am

I meant just polishing without doing a sealer like Sharks Hide. Will the shine last the season with boat staying in water?
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#6 Post by Bryden24shp » Mon Mar 19, 2018 3:06 am

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#7 Post by jeffh129 » Thu Mar 29, 2018 11:09 am

Why bother? Is this a Southern thing ? I’m in WI and was on various lakes about 60 times last summer. ( I’ll improve on that this year ) In all of my outings I only saw one pontoon with shined pontoons. I bass fish around piers and docks, so I see a lot of pontoons up close. I admit that the one shined up pontoon looked great, but still, why ? Almost no one up here seems to care or do it. Just curious.

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#8 Post by BiXLL » Thu Mar 29, 2018 2:50 pm

As a rule, I try to keep everything I have as nice as possible. If it means a little work, so be it. I take pride in my boat also.

Oh by the way, Pittsburgh ain't south.
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#9 Post by Kramfam » Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:23 am

I keep my boat in the water in the summer and use 3M Scotchbrite gray scouring pads to keep them clean and realatively shiny. Everyother week, while beached, I clean them.....doesnt take more than 10-15 minutes. It doesnt look like sharkhide but removes the growth and dull gray residue.
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#10 Post by jeffh129 » Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:51 am

Bixll - A bit snarky, eh? I take pride in my boat too. And yeah, I know Pittsburgh isn’t in the south. I also know that most pontoon owners in Pittsburgh aren’ t shining their pontoons either. Does that mean they lack pride in their boats too ?

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#11 Post by BiXLL » Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:48 am

Did not mean to come accross as "snarkey", I appologize if I came accross that way. I am a bit anal about all my stuff. I just put a deposit down to have a epoxy resign coating put down ony garage floor because the little cracks in. The concrete were driving me nuts! When I had my cruiser I would spend hours in my engine bay cleaning and shinning. Polishing my toons won't be nearly as bad.
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Re: What is the hot product for sealing toons?

#12 Post by jeffh129 » Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:52 am

Ok, no problem.

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