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Ted Moes

Ted Moes

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is scuffing hull or waxing better

which is will make boat faster
 
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Perfectly smooth surfaces have more drag than surfaces finished using fine sandpaper. I use 400 grit wet/dry on the riding

surfaces.
 
I once heard of a guy that after every race he waxed the bottom of his boats, everyone gave him hell about his methods but he had the fastest boats on the pond. I have always been conflicted about to sand or not to sand. Maybe someone can share there many years of knowledge to why waxed or scuffed is more beneficial.

Thanks Beau
 
Has anyone ever did a back-to-back test at the lake. If so what were the results and how much difference was there between the two????????

Charles
 
Put some Rain-X on the bottom of the boat and run it. Make sure you shoot a video when you run it so you can share it with the rest of us on here...........

Seriously, 320 or 400 grit paper and sand front to back. Try to use a flat block on the aft end of the bottom. Don't get carried away with the sanding; you just need to get the gloss off. Do this with ALL of your boats, not just the monos.

Dick Tyndall
 
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I remembered that I saw Jerry Crowther use sercet wax" paste" than liquid onto his seaducer mono and it run quick fast
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Charles Perdue said:
Has anyone ever did a back-to-back test at the lake. If so what were the results and how much difference was there between the two????????

Charles
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I stumbled onto this pretty early on when I first got into boating. I waxed the heck out of a 90 size aeromarine sprint cat. Man it was shiney haha...That thing was glued to the water until I washed the wax off the bottom with acetone.

Brian
 
Turn your polished hull upside & wet the hull, the water forms into beads clinging to the hull due to the waters surface tension. Do the same with a scuffed hull & the water runs completely of the hull leaving the hull dry.
 
I have done a comparison test with an unscuffed boat. After a couple of runs I turned it over and sanded it with 400 grit. Boat ran noticeably better after it was scuffed.
 
I had always heard that a sanded hull was better but until someone had tried it for themselves and confirmed that it was better, it could be just another of the tales that once they were repeated many times, they became known as facts when they simply were not true.

There are too many of those type tales on here and otherwise.

Thanks guys......

Charles
 
I had a dream
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A angle came to me and told me to mix seed-flow with epoxy and put it on the bottom of my boat...............
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It must be true if a angle told me..........
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