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Originally Posted by mswlogo
Why does everyone think this is a back breaking job?
My guess is, you’ve attempted to “shine it” it by other means and just concluded it needs tons of elbow grease to “fix it”.
The body part(s) that are most taxed isn’t your back, it’s your shoulders if anything. And maybe your feet because you’re standing quite a while. I jacked my trailer up on blocks so I didn’t have to crouch much. Platform pops off. But in fairness it was not a “deep V” I/O boat. It was a full inboard ski boat. So the side walls are not as tall as many boats.
BTW, I sold one boat because it was all dulled up and I too thought it not worth the investment or my back. The guy I sold it to polished it and was shocked how nice it came out. I still assumed he had to of broke his back doing it though, that fool. When the next boat dulled up I thought I’m not doing that again and gave it a shot. Could not be happier I didn’t take the lazy route. I was the fool with my old boat and realized how dumb I was to never even try on the old boat.
With all the shortages and demand on everything these days good luck getting it done even at the ~$3000 rate. Good advice though to try and make arrangements now though.
I have not heard from anyone here that has done it, say I did it, came out great and I’ll never do it again because it was to much work. Just “armchair quarterbacks” giving advice on how much physical labor it is that has never done it.
One possible valid argument is your time is more valuable. But my argument there is I often see people spend more time bringing their boat or car somewhere. Wait at their mercy and then go pick it up. I often do things myself because I can control the schedule. And in the end save time. Then I go waste it posting here  |
I don't own a trailer. In the case of ceramic coating, the work was done in February, and Diamond Shine transported the boat back and forth. This year, different boat, I had Hi-Gloss Boat Restorations do some varnish work in March. Once the boat was in their shop we decided to add other projects that I had been postponing. Try to add projects in the spring or summer--can't be done. Again, the boat was transported back and forth. I never left the office. Pictures via email. For me, that's controlling the schedule.