Hey All,

Getting to that time  to clean up the course - all my buoys starting, driving and turning are all black from sitting on the water and ideas on cleaning them? I tried bleach and a couple other products and nothing works - am I stuck with dirty balls?

Great Lakes Skipper may have one, a shot in the dark.  It is also a fairly easy DIY project if you come up empty.  Good luck.

I had the first year they did the LX, 19 maybe?  I liked it.  I appreciated its honesty.  Hard to call it an axis cross, but it kind of was.  A little smaller feeling but which was fine for us. 

3 hours ago, homer12 said:

Should I try disconnecting the engine harness and see if that helps?

That sounds like a great idea.  Keep isolating until you find it.

I use this stuff which is really more of a polish than a compound: https://a.co/d/jbwNDka

it works great on a slightly firmer pad. 
 

then I wax/seal with the super soft pad and whatever bottle of wax I’m working through. 
 

generally do this annually on “put the boat down for winter nap” day, with a wax mid season.
 

But on the old boat my platform got super oxidized (in the places the buffer won’t reach) and I used this to bring it back when I pulled the platform and replaced the swim pad. 
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so in short, other than potentially wasting a little time from not going aggro enough, the firmish pad / polish method has worked for me to bring back the shine