Cleaner Performance

To a boater, cleaning performance is very important. When buying a product you want to know if it will get the job done and leave you with a shiny clean boat. To evaluate each cleaner’s performance we lined up 3 boats: a well cared for boat with a wax finish and minimal dirt, a boat with some mildew and an oxidized finish, and a boat that had been stored under trees, uncovered and untouched for two years. We marked off 20 one-foot segments along the hull of each boat, mixed and applied the cleaners per the instructions on each bottle. 

We started cleaning first with a plain sponge.  If that was not sufficient we moved on to a medium grade scrubbing pad, and if the boat was still not cleaned sufficiently we moved on to a course bristled scrub brush.  Rating each cleaning method helped us determine the cleaning performance score. 

One-foot wide sections were marked off on each boat to allow testing of 20 different cleaning products.

Foundation staff inspect cleaner performance.

The cleaners performed well, overall, removing 2 years worth of dirt that had accumulated on this boat.