Waxing your own cabin cruiser in the water?

[SkiPharmer]

Ive always owned trailerable open bow boats and have been always able to wax it on my own. I now have a 1995 330 Sundancer that is in a slip. How do people wax their boats that are this big and in the water? I am just curious as to how you do the rub rail to the water line. Or is it best to wax it before it goes into the water? Or should i just suck it up and pay someone to wax it? It seems like if i could do it on my own it would save a ton of money.

THANKS!

 

[JimG]

I only wax above the rub rail while on the water. I also pull my boat out and put it up for the winter, so in the spring before the splash, I'll do the rub rail down.

 

[Molson]

Do the hull sides before it his the water. The topsides can be done in slip. I find it easier to do the whole thing on land.

 

[Hifirush]

I'm faced with the same thing, same boat. If you can use a small floating platform that's ideal, but I haven't found an affordable one. I'm using a dock mates slip which has a deck about a foot above waterline. It's tight, but will work. Other than that, it's leaning over, and that's a back breaker.

Matt


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[SkiPharmer]

well it is already in the slip, so i will just do what i can then. I should be able to get most of the boat even below the rub rail....we boat in fresh water.

 

[Molson]

I'll sometimes do it at the beach while I'm on the hook with some cleaner wax.

 

[dpmulvey]

Waxing a larger boat in the water has been likened to hanging wallpaper on roller skates while standing on ice.

Be careful.

 

[BillK2632]

We had floating docks, so I could get to the whole thing, pulled it bow in to do the bow sections. It wasn't easy, but I stayed in the water all the time. If I could I did it during the annual haul out, but sometimes there wasn't time.

 

[Gofirstclass]

If you're waxing it while it's in the water, tie a knot in the power cord around one of your bow rail stanchions or a cleat. That way if the buffer gets out of your grip it won't go in the drink.

 

[Big Island Lifer]

I spent a couple of years waxing mine in the slip while wearing waders. Now that I have a little one I pay to have it done before its splashed. I have a new sense of mortality.


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[AllTideUp]

This year I waxed the whole boat in the water. I used a small raft the marina had to get below the rub rail. The raft was pretty stable but it was still difficult get get certain parts of the hull. Due to the angles and how I had to sit on the raft for so long I was pretty sore afterwards..

I also used a cheap buffer from Harbor Freight just in case it took a swim

 

[AMFM3]

I wax every year prior to launch. We haul out so that we can do that type of maintenance.

Mark

 

[Fly'n Family]

Ours comes out for the winter - but is waxed rub rail down prior to launch, then top-side a little while later while in her slip.