waxing that as_...........errr, bottom?

[buyfire]

i knew you pervs would look. :oops:

i'm detailing the boat this weekend and was planning on waxing the running surface. i've read somewhere on this forum that this will actually cause a decrease in top end performance. is this true?

if you're not supposed to wax the underside of the hull, what do you use for protection? is there a special cleaner/protectant that won't cause a decrease in top end?

[HHARRIS]

your correct on the loss of top end performance, but the wax is a good protectant, im sure you wont notice the loss, unless your going for a world record kilo run and every 1/10th of a MPH counts! [smilie=042.gif]

i used to wax the bottom of my crownline 225 ccr because it was all red and i wanted to keep it that way, i had the 350 mag and it would run the same all day long 58mph freshly waxed or not!

plus i would probably think that one good pass across the lake and all the wax would be stripped off of it anyway!

[Frenzy]

Actually, we wax most of the bottoms of the boats that we detail. In the racing ciruit, it's kind of mixed. Some do; some don't. As a pleasure boater, you will probably not notice a difference. If you do, waxing the bottom to avoid "stuff" sticking to it, will far outweigh the decrease in speed.

[KCHOTBOAT]

For a pleasure boat I would wax it. My bottom was sanded before I bought it for the Power Boat mag 100mph shootout and it looks like someone dragged it on a beach.

[flatlander]

i sanded the bottom of my boat (was an old river boat and was beached alot. the bottom needs to be blueprinted any way) and got 2 mph out of her. or it could of been the fact that it was 15 degrees cooler [smilie=265.gif]