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I have completely failed in keeping the brows of my tug looking nice. I have tried every wax, polish, ceramic, treatment that I can find and within a month or two they are oxidized and look awful. So my new solution is I made sunbrella covers for them. I just may keep them on all the time. We will see if they keep the gelcoat looking better now that they are covered from the sun.

Pictures are in my album.
 
very nice! This is a great idea.
 
They must be made of the least sun-resistant material on earth. Maybe spray them frequently and liberally with sun-block? Seriously - Paint might be good. Not too hard, doesn't have to be mirror perfect, 'cause you never get real close to them.

Larry
 
im very close to awlgriping mine
 
Cutwater28gg, Have you looked at Alexseal paint at all? The boatworks today youtube channel did some tests with it and it looked like it smoothed out very nicely with just a roller application.
 
ill check it out
 
I’m trying Nu Finish. Used it for years on my cars. I’ve got one application one now and will put the 2nd application next week.
 
I use Nu Finish on the rest of the boat. It works as well as anything else and is easy to apply. But once the gelcoat starts deteriorating it is a downhill adventure.

I see the advantage of boathouses for new boats with colored gelcoat.
 
I might have posted something on this before. Or not.

At a boat show about 18 months ago I bought a "kit" from an outfit called Poly-Glow. It is billed as a restoration product for gel coat.

I'm not so sure my 2012 vintage eye brows are even gel coated. I don't even think they are traditional fiberglass lay up. They might be something we called sheet molding compound back from my days in the auto industry. Anyway, my brows were drastically faded. Lots worse than my blue hull. I tried polishing compound and wax that lasted maybe a week under the sun. So I bought the Poly Glow.

They have you scotchbrite the brows down to a uniform scuff finish. Then you apply the PolyGlow. You wipe it on with a smooth stroke. The smoother the better. Let it dry (only minutes) and then hit it again for 6 or more coats. It is difficult to do it all without some streaks, but as someone said, you really don't get that close to it. It lasts a long time. I only had a short chance to do a brief recoat this spring before I got back in the water. A back/hip problem has prevented me from doing a lot of acrobatics to recoat and wax my topsides this season. It is still going strong with some water spots only. I need to wash them off. They say, if you want/need to strip the stuff off, you can buy their stripper to start all over again. Haven't even tried.

Since that time i have learned that Poly Glow is simply Bruce's Floor Wax. I knew it smelled familiar.
Anyone else had any experience with this stuff?
 
I might have posted something on this before. Or not.

At a boat show about 18 months ago I bought a "kit" from an outfit called Poly-Glow. It is billed as a restoration product for gel coat.

I'm not so sure my 2012 vintage eye brows are even gel coated. I don't even think they are traditional fiberglass lay up. They might be something we called sheet molding compound back from my days in the auto industry. Anyway, my brows were drastically faded. Lots worse than my blue hull. I tried polishing compound and wax that lasted maybe a week under the sun. So I bought the Poly Glow.

They have you scotchbrite the brows down to a uniform scuff finish. Then you apply the PolyGlow. You wipe it on with a smooth stroke. The smoother the better. Let it dry (only minutes) and then hit it again for 6 or more coats. It is difficult to do it all without some streaks, but as someone said, you really don't get that close to it. It lasts a long time. I only had a short chance to do a brief recoat this spring before I got back in the water. A back/hip problem has prevented me from doing a lot of acrobatics to recoat and wax my topsides this season. It is still going strong with some water spots only. I need to wash them off. They say, if you want/need to strip the stuff off, you can buy their stripper to start all over again. Haven't even tried.

Since that time i have learned that Poly Glow is simply Bruce's Floor Wax. I knew it smelled familiar.
Anyone else had any experience with this stuff?
 
Interesting. I have not tried PolyGlow or Bruce's floor wax. I will give that a try on my propane locker which looks like it has been through a war.

For that Bruce's do you mean the Bruce Fresh Finish product. I looks like it is a urethane coating.
 
That fresh finish stuff is billed as a urethane... not over waxed surfaces, etc. (But remember that they tell you to thoroughly scotchbrite the old finish to a uniform dull finish before you put on the PolyGlow.) The old Bruce's floor wax wasn't really a wax either... as I recall. I may have been dating myself because the last time I used Bruce's floor wax was when I was single, living in a van down by the river.

I'll have to look around the local grocery store to see what products they have.
 
Thanks to all for the conversation.
I have been doing a bunch of research for solutions on the same issue for my Claret Red R27. While I was looking into the poly glow product that a friend used on his old Winnebago with good results, I found a forum of Scamp fiberglass trailer owners that use ZEP Floor finish (Home Depot) with good results. My only concern with the ZEP is the UV issue. It may tend to yellow. I haven't found if Poly Glow has additional UV protection that may not be in the floor finish.
I've looked into the ceramic treatment (guy would not even consider my boat) and am interested to see poor results listed earlier in this forum. They tout great things with the process.
Currently I'm getting by with collonite paste wax. It provides marginal results with a lot of work. I'm also considering a wrap vice paint job.
 
Poly-Glow is evil. I stood by as friends spent literally years trying to remove it after it yellowed on their white hulls.
 
As far as treatments go I’m convinced a good annual compounding, polish, and wax is the best approach along with several wax treatments through the season. However, I like the idea of brow covers and would definitely use them if I kept the boat in Florida!

I don’t know if the material or process is any different on the brows (I doubt it). I think it is just the exposure and angle to the sun. A direct hit! It is worth noting that RT no longer uses color on the brows of any of the new boat models.

Curt
 
Red Raven said:
As far as treatments go I’m convinced a good annual compounding, polish, and wax is the best approach along with several wax treatments through the season. However, I like the idea of brow covers and would definitely use them if I kept the boat in Florida!

I don’t know if the material or process is any different on the brows (I doubt it). I think it is just the exposure and angle to the sun. A direct hit! It is worth noting that RT no longer uses color on the brows of any of the new boat models.

Curt
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