Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

I was planning on using Sharkshide after polishing this year. I have run accross a couple products I have never heard of before and am wondering if they might be a better choice. Alumetron, and Top Coat. Anybody have any experience with these?

Not me. I just polish my toons yearly first of June.

I tried to use Sharkhide, but could never get the aluminum oxide off the toons. That alone is a tough job. It is easier to just polish it again.

Does the Polish last the season? My boat stays in the water

It will last several seasons and is easy to re-apply. The next coat will dissolve the first coat and makes them look like the first application. I swear by Sharkhide. I had the ToonBrite on the first Manitou (factory coating) it was on the first and replacement set of pontoons. That stuff wore of fast and gave the toons a tarnished look. That's why I polished them, then polished them on the next 2 boats. If you polish them, use lacquer thinner in a pump up sprayer with a metal wand and end (it will destroy a plastic one, fast) to get the polishing residue, off.

I meant just polishing without doing a sealer like Sharks Hide. Will the shine last the season with boat staying in water?

No

Why bother? Is this a Southern thing ? I’m in WI and was on various lakes about 60 times last summer. ( I’ll improve on that this year ) In all of my outings I only saw one pontoon with shined pontoons. I bass fish around piers and docks, so I see a lot of pontoons up close. I admit that the one shined up pontoon looked great, but still, why ? Almost no one up here seems to care or do it. Just curious.

As a rule, I try to keep everything I have as nice as possible. If it means a little work, so be it. I take pride in my boat also.

Oh by the way, Pittsburgh ain't south.

I keep my boat in the water in the summer and use 3M Scotchbrite gray scouring pads to keep them clean and realatively shiny. Everyother week, while beached, I clean them.....doesnt take more than 10-15 minutes. It doesnt look like sharkhide but removes the growth and dull gray residue.

Bixll - A bit snarky, eh? I take pride in my boat too. And yeah, I know Pittsburgh isn’t in the south. I also know that most pontoon owners in Pittsburgh aren’ t shining their pontoons either. Does that mean they lack pride in their boats too ?

Did not mean to come accross as "snarkey", I appologize if I came accross that way. I am a bit anal about all my stuff. I just put a deposit down to have a epoxy resign coating put down ony garage floor because the little cracks in. The concrete were driving me nuts! When I had my cruiser I would spend hours in my engine bay cleaning and shinning. Polishing my toons won't be nearly as bad.

Ok, no problem.