Any tips on Wet Sanding my boat?

[wawasee1]

Just wanted to see if anybody had any helpful tips on wetsanding my hull. I have an 89 SN, grey hull with yellow stripe. My yellow is very faded so I did some testing on an inconspicuous area and found that wetsanding brought back the yellow to the original color faster than compounding. Obviously I will compound after wetsanding but I wanted to see if anybody has had any experience doing this...the color difference is night and day and I am very excited to see my boat with the original colors once again. I'm prepared to take whatever time needed to make it a quality job.....just need some direction. Any and all help is appreciated.

[tryan]

600-800-1000-1200-1500-compound-polish. you can't skip any steps.

[Rick]

I bow to the almighty Tryan. Do what he says. Or in another language "ditto"

[nms1991]

use plenty of water and dont forget to have a comfortable stool to sit on to sand with. but go in steps dont skip steps start with 600 and be careful not to sand through the gelcoat because you will have to respary the area with gelcoat. thew last step to be done is wax it with a good carnuba based wax in the shade.;

[wawasee1]

Thanks for the good info! Do I do it with a palm sander? By hand? A combination of both? Do I use the 600 until I see the color I'm looking for? I'm very leary of taking too much gelcoat off and want to do it right the first time. Thanks again for your replies!!

[ag4ever]

Keep the power tools way away. Everyting by hand using good sanding blocks.