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Originally Posted by B-assman
Last year I was working on my boat in the yard - next to me was another boat that this guy brought from a chalky dull white to an incredible shine. I asked him how he did it. Here's what he told me.
1) DONT use compound
2) POLISH the gel coat with maguires polish. Use a machine polisher and go over it as many times as you need to to get the shine. As he told me the polish returns oils to the gel coat. It's the only way to get it back up to a shine.
3) after you get the shine back - then wax it - just to protect the finish.
This year I followed his advice on my 20yr old sailboat and I was really blown away by the results. It works.
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Polish is compound! Two different names for the same stuff. When using compound or polish you need to keep working your way down to the finer and finer stuff. If you start off with the fine stuff it will still work, but you'll just have to do it more to get to the same level of shine. Wax just protects the finished product, to get it to shine you have to use some sort of polish or compound. The one step waxes just include the polish in the wax.