cyanarella
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Your toons look brand new! Nice job! Do you trailer or keep your boat in the water?!?Spent the day cleaning the toons. Hard part of owning these boats. Our lake is so clean but the lake lines always get to me.
What’s your trick?
I am not a clean toon nut and my toons look pretty good on my 5 year old boat. I think where you boat and how clean your lake has a lot to do with it and we are fortunate with our lake. Occasional blue scratch pad wipe down while boat is in the water. Pressure washer when it comes out in the fall.
Your toons look brand new! Nice job! Do you trailer or keep your boat in the water?!?
We try to stay on it! We get in the water at least once a week to clean the waterline and the outdrive. We have a clean lake but "stuff" just accumulates on them. When we first get down to the slip we see the "ring" around the toons. But once we leave the slip and hit that throttle by the time we get where we're going most of the stuff comes off.
I have 3 coats of Sharkhide on the tubes and they relatively protect them. Keeping our boat in the water all summer I know they would look like crap if they weren't protected with Sharkhide. My only complaint is the tubes look pretty crappy BELOW the water line.........
Don't think you are supposed to use acid wash on toons BK
Personally, having had a dealer cause about $10K worth of damage to my boat, I would avoid an acid wash at all costs unless you are the one doing it. I keep mine clean by using two wash mitts and going over all three toons every couple of weeks at the local sandbar. If you're not able to do that, perhaps you could hire a kid to do it as it takes me less than 15 minutes to do all six sides front to back and top to bottom. It doesn't make them shiny, just keeps them clean.
Acid washing seems to illicit different responses. Some for some against. My concern is the bunk carpet. I'm not opposed to a soft-ish brush that will get the job done. However, there is no way I will be able to get between the tubes and trailer and still be able to walk the next week. Not to mention the concussions from bumping my head a dozen times. Looks like I will call around and see how much it will cost to lift it off the trailer and clean them. If it cost too much (which I think it will) I will add a few more lumps t my head Thanks for everyone's help!
My Marina in VA had a lift fee of $15. in addition to the acid washing. They used to pull the trailer under the lift and it picked the boat up by the deck. Wasn't expensive at all.....
For me that is why a lift pays for itself over time and keeps the boat dry and clean.