New 2004 Air 216 Team With ZR6!!!

[AbunDiga909]

How will the color affect the maintenance? What do you mean? Are you talking about how I think blue is the perfect balance between a fun and a classic color?

[Hollywood]

Scratches and water spots. The darker the color, the easier these things show.

[lcap]

I going simple with a teak platform and black trailer. We'll see if it works

[jroyal]

Yea, Hollywood is correct. By "maintenance issue", I was referring to waterspots and scratches showing up easier black. I have a silver cloud (white) hull with a black stripe. While I wipe the whole thing down after each use, the black is the only area that I really have to wipe down extra hard. It shows water spots pretty easy. I could only imagine that if I had to do that to the whole boat. Also, the black stripe shows scratches alot easier than the white. Scratches are much more noticeable on the black.

[gatorgates]

I would shy away from a dark colored hull or deck. My last cc had a red hull and red deck and waterspots were a drag. If you paste wax, you can't miss any spots or the swirls show and even little scratches show up white unless you buff like crazy. Go nuts with the stripes, leave the hull and deck white or budget for the cost of a neigborhood kid to wipe and buff.

[AbunDiga909]

We are leaning towards a colored hull and its probably gonna be gray. i dont think i would ever get a nautique without a colored hull, that option is just too cool to miss. Like i said earlier, dont let this money issue get in the way of your favorite choice. I'd rather be extremely careful and anal about keeping it in good shape to try to keep it in good shape.

[Onthewater]

gray should be very easy and be just as easy as white to maintain.

[gatorgates]

Back in the day, I had a black and grey stars and stripes mastercraft which was probably the coolest looking boat I have owned. Grey hull and deck, black stripes, grey stars.

[AbunDiga909]

gatorgates, thats sounds really sharp, have any pics of it? Theres one on your lake (or used to be) a blue one with white stars, and I thought that was nice also.

[redelf75]

So how can one prevent water spots and how do you get rid of them once they're there?

[Onthewater]

To avoid - Wipe down, wipe down, wipe down. Keep it in the shade when possible.

To remove - cleaning/buffing aka elbow grease and lots of it.

[Edwin]

Washing the boat with Lime-A-Way will remove all water spots. Make sure to rinse well afterward, as well as re-apply wax.

[redelf75]

But what's the best stuff to use in wiping and buffing? Are you suggesting waxing?

[Hollywood]

A vinegar/water solution also works at removing water spots. The "buffing" referred to is just rubbing.

[Grant_West]

I Like the Green and Black one totaly cool and diffrent it remindes me of Team Green