The Boat Cleaning Blog

Identify the condition of your surfaces

Using eyes alone, surfaces fall into 6 main types of condition.

(1) High gloss with a perfect reflection, there may be old wax or water scale but the surface is sound

(2) High gloss with some light scatter from micro scratches / swirl marks etc

(3) Losing its gloss in places but still retains a good reflection overall

(4) Losing its gloss in places but also has some light scatter, starting to oxide.

(5) Lost its gloss and can't tell if there is surface scatter or micro scratches, as there is no reflection

(6) Lost its gloss and has started to become chalky, has changed colour and become quite rough in places.

Surface condition