Wow! Highly Polished Aluminum Gregor

[SeaKaye12]

Have you ever seen an aluminum fishing boat shine like this one?<br /><br /> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/GREG...63727QQitemZ4617013885QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW <br /><br />Sheesh! It's beautiful!<br /><br />Anyone know who to polish one like that? What sort of buffing compound etc. yields a look like that? And how tough is it to keep it looking like that?<br /><br />Maybe it's clear-coated somehow? <br /><br />Thanks for reading folks...Chuck

 

[tashasdaddy]

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it's a beauty, thats the longest ebay i've ever seen.

 

[JB]

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Back in. . . .well, many years ago. . . I was flight crew on Admiral Stump's (CINCPAC) plane.<br /><br />R6DZ (new designation: C118Z) plushed out. The "Z" designated her as a "VIPPER". #128427.<br /><br />"427" shined like that boat. When we first got her the airframe shop buffed her with power buffers and a rubbing compoud-like paste. Could have been DuPont compound. Then working parties of 20-40 sailors at a time polished her BY HAND using NeverDull to take out the buffer swirls.<br /><br />We repolished her before every trip. Everywhere we stopped, worldwide, ground crews gathered to marvel at her.

 

[Bondo]

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And how tough is it to keep it looking like that?

Without the Constant Polishing that JB notes,............<br /><br />Impossible...........<br /><br />And,.....<br />You Can't paint a Polished surface,......... That means,.. No Clearcoat.......

 

[rickdb1boat]

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Here's some more info on getting that shine. I been wanting to do this to my toon logs, but looks like alot of work to me.... <br /><br /> web page

 

[Always Broke]

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WOW! Somebody really knows how to raise the price on a boat without even buying any paint! Makes me want to strip my 21’ Starcraft….NOT It is a pretty boat though. When I was a truck driver there was a chemical they used to spray on the aluminum fuel tanks at the truck washes that would make em shiny, even if they were pretty dull. I don’t know what it was though, and if ya did that then used a fine polish it might work, but in a marine environment I think I would want a clear coat over it too. You’d probably have to polish your boat every time you had it out otherwise.

 

[mikemerrill50]

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that is a beautiful boat! can't say i've ever seen someone keep an alum. boat that shiny. i've seen pictures of a plane that shiny, but not a boat.

 

[EZLoader]

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There are lots of custom aluminum fishing boats on the west coast. <br /><br />That shine can be real polished aluminum or it might be a chrome "vinyl" cover. If its real there are new protective shine products (one called Sharkskin) that will keep it shiny a long time. The chrome vinyl is the latest rage for fisherman out my way who want lots of bling without the effort.

 

[Mark42]

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Think it might be anodized?

 

[surlyjoe]

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its probably clear coat, don't you think?

 

[Boomyal]

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Probably scare the fish away!

 

[wetboy86]

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I think we all know a guy that is obsessed with being that clean. not that its wrong, just a little more than most will do.<br /><br />she's a creme puff huh?

 

[w2much]

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I just bought a nice 18" Gregor and posed the same question to a freind of mine who works with metals. He claims that each time you polish a soft metal(aluminum) you are actually taking some of its metal away. Each time you polish your hull gets thinner and thinner. The white corrosion on the aluminum is best left in place. Each time you remove it you are inviting more corrosion. Left in place corrosion slows to a negligable effect. First thing I thought of when I bought this boat was to polish her up nice and pretty. Now much to my chagrin I doubt that I will. Any other opinions on this are welcome.

 

[brownies]

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That is correct. Anytime you polish something, you are removing material. <br />BUT......<br />I've never heard of anybody polishing thru an aluminum hull.<br />I'd think that would take "some kind" of committment.

 

[w2much]

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So is it better to leave the hull alone or is polishing a good idea. I would like to give it the inaugural polish because I finnally have a boat but I certainly would not make a habbit of it? I use the boat in salt water so that polishing is more a matter of love than a practicality. Is there a protective coating on these boats when they are new? One that polishing would remove?

 

[WillyBWright]

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Sorry, wrong place.

 

[Twidget]

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Is the tactic to blind the fish, so they are disoriented and easy to net? That is one shiny boat.

 

[studlymandingo]

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Boy, I think that would be way too much work. I mostly zip around in salt-water. That would be a nightmare to constantly hand rub after every trip out! Course if you were lost at sea, I'm sure it would be better for the CG to find you!