Speed Boat Detailing: Scrubbing the Sides

Video Transcript

"Hi, it's Dow here at the Fire House Car Wash. Today we're detailing a boat, teaching you how to do it like a professional would. We're going to start on the exterior of the boat. Now we've cleaned the cover and got it removed. The first step we're going to do is typically on a motor boat, if you live in an area like we do, you're going to have hard water spots, you're going to have lake scum debris on it, just all kinds of things that are making your boat not shine, not look clean. So we got running water in a hose, We've got a bucket, soapy water. Now I recommend for washing the exterior of the boat just a general purpose car washing soap, boat washing soap. This is a wash and wax auto shampoo. We put two or three ounces in a half of five gallon bucket. Then we go to our car washing, auto or boat; I keep saying car washing, but you know, boat washing stuff, like our brush, our mitt here, and were going to wash the boat and we're going to remove the hard water in two steps, altogether as we move around the boat. So first thing we're going to do is we're going to get a section of the boat wet, that's imperative. Rinse it off, get what we can, then we move in with our sponge, soap and just start washing it top to bottom. Again, we're pushing debris from the top, we're bringing it down. I like to flow back and forth the way the car, or the way the boat goes through the water. So we're just generally washing it in this direction. Get a section that you can handle, and then once you've got that done, let's make sure we hit the trailer too. And then we can do that later in a second step, and go around and do all the trailer. For me it's just as easy to come down, wash the trailer, and the boat simultaneously as we systematically work around it."