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Protection whilst Towing your Boat
Are you tired to having to clean your boat after you trailer it along the highwawy?
Use 303 Aerospace Protectant to create a tough protective layer on your boats gelcoat or fibreglass Area is sealed and protected, leaving a hard surface bond that cannot be penetrated. Bugs, road tar, tree sap and bird droppings all become much easier to remove and clean with 303.
* Stops bugs, tree sap, bird droppings from sticking to surface.
* Stops bug acid from eating through paint to metal surface.
* Clear long lasting coating. Easy to apply.
* Great on vehicle grills, bumpers, head lights and front of mirrors.
* Great for R.V's, 18 wheelers, Trucks and cars.
Gelcoat / Fibreglass Care and Protection
Gelcoat fibreglass is polyester resin with the pigment in the resin, commonly used in boats, RV's, snowmobiles, jet ski's, etc. Gelcoat fibreglass rapidly fades and chalks with traditional maintenance being tedious and repetitive buffing and waxing.
303 Aerospace Protectant is an alternative to buffing and waxing. 303 restores like new color and gloss to faded gelcoat fiberglass by spraying on and polishing completely dry.
A new appearance is maintained with periodic spray on/wipe off applications usually every 45-60 days of exposure. Fibreglass shines. Colors stay bright.
In addition, the 303'd surface is extremely repellent to water, soiling and staining ... staying cleaner longer and clean up is much easier when soiled.
So for gelcoat fiberglass 303 Aerospace Protectant is a superior with respect to ease of use, level of protection, appearance and repellency.
Aluminium Protection for Boat and Bimini
Anodized aluminum is a common marine material used in many ways: Supports for bimini tops & enclosures; tuna towers; frames for hatches and windshields; sail masts & booms; outriggers, ladders & other trim. Aluminum is particularly susceptible to degradation from salt air and salt water. 303 is an excellent, super-easy way to keep aluminum looking like new and to protect from salt air & salt water degradation. (Wax can do this, too, but wax is less effective, doesn't last as long and is so much more difficult to apply that it's rarely used this way). In addition, 303'd aluminum repels air, water, smudging, soiling, fish blood and scales.
ALSO: Racing sailers (and sailboarders) '303' their masts to cut the drag coefficient. Knowledgeable boat owners treat instrument bezels and other colored anodized aluminum (usually black) to revitalize the color & prevent fading... against which 303's powerful UV screening agents are effective.
Protecting Sailcloth
303 Aerospace Protectant is for plastics, synthetic materials in an inherently repellent form.
Many plastics can be manufactured in both forms. One example is polyester. Polyester carpeting is polyester resin in a textile form....spill water or other liquid on it and it absorbs like cotton. Or in another form, polyester resin is the gelcoat fiberglass in your boat, jet ski or snowmobile, nothing at all like a textile, but hard & repellent to water. Acrylics, nylons, polypropylene and many other plastics in both forms are common components of innumerable consumer items. So whether 303 Aerospace Protectant or 303 Fabric Guard may be used depends primarily not on the type of plastic, but the form into which the plastic is made.
a) Dacron: 303 Aerospace Protectant will restore lost color to faded colored dacron, and periodic reapplications will keep it that way. 303's super-repellent finish minimizes the cutting action of mineral deposits and sand on the seam stitching and thereby prevents or dramatically delays seam failure caused by abrasion.
b) Monofilm: 303's super-smooth finish repels dirt, soiling and smudging. Treated monofilm cleans up much easier when soiled. And sand and dirt that would otherwise dig in and scratch monofilm is often repelled away instead so scratching is minimized. Perhaps most appreciated by windsurfers is it's superior and long lasting water-sheeting properties (for maximum water-sheeting, buff aggressively with a soft dry cloth).
Sailcloth: The three most common sailcloths are dacron (polyester), monofilm (polyester), and ripstop nylon.
Dacron: Bainbridge, headquarted in Canton, MA U.S.A, is the acknowledged world leading authority on sailcloth and one of the largest manufacturers. Bainbridge conducted UV screening tests on dacron sailcloth in the early 80's and have been selling it in their catalog for that purpose since 1986. Dacron sailcloth, though a woven material is polyester resin in a repellent form. Dacron sailcloth is typically the brightly colored sail material...red, green, blue, etc. Dacron sailcloth is typically treated at the factory with a finishing resin to produce the required degree of stiffness, known as "hand".
Monofilm: Monofilm sailcloth is not a woven material, but polyester resin in a solid, transparent form. Monofilm sailcloth is commonly used in windsurfing. The first company known to have tested 303 Aerospace Protectant on monofilm is Primex Marketing, a major wholesale supplier to the windsurfing and paddling aftermarkets. Since then a number of other companies have reported that 303 Aerospace Protectant is extremely effective on monofilm as well as dacron sailcloth.
Ripstop Nylon: Though it very well may be that 303 Aerospace Protectant's UV screening properties are effective on ripstop nylon (303 is effective on nylon in other forms), the company has received no reports of testing by any manufacturer.
Increasing Boat Speeds
303 Aerospace Protectant is a quick and easy way to cut the drag on a particular surface. Cut the drag and you go faster. Drag boat racers reduce the drag co-efficient on their racing boat to next to nothing.and keep their boat looking gorgeous - by buffing down all exposed surfaces with 303 Aerospace Protectant.
We're not talking about water here, but air. During a run, very little of a drag boat even touches the water.
The best way to apply 303 Aerospace Protectant in this case is with a variable speed buffer with a synthetic wool or foam finishing pad. First, clean the surface to be treated eliminating all dust, dirt, grease and oil. Spray 303 Aerospace Protectant on a 2' or 3' square area, spread it with the buffer then turn up the speed a little (1800 rpm max) and polish it in. The extra friction causes the `303' to almost melt into the surface.
Two points: Takes very little product; don't `burn' the surface with the buffer. The key here is to use between 1700 and 1800 rpm and medium pressure.
This application method works on all hard surfaces: Metal, gelcoat fiberglass, Lexan, glass, even painted meta
Wood & Teak Protection
The use of 303 Aerospace Protectant? on teak is not a "factory recommended" application, although, theoretically, there's no reason why it shouldn't work as described by this writer. As of this time, further investigation of the use of 303 Protectant on teak is in process.
For 303's Boating customers: This below is passed on for what may be worth.
303 Aerospace Protectant is awesome! I use your product to preserve the teak wood on my boat. Teak fades and becomes a dull gray through exposure. By using your product my teak decks stay a golden brown.
I only clean and oil my teak ONCE a year. This is important because every time you clean teak you raise the grain and cause roughness. Roughness means sanding.
Sanding means I'm wearing down my teak, but that isn't the best part.
The best thing about using 303 is that I do not have to be careful about staining other surfaces. When you use teak oil or linseed oil you have to assure that you don't get it onto the fiberglass or vinyl. This usually means a lot of taping of surrounding areas. With 303, I just use a paint brush and wipe it onto everything and know that I'm helping the surrounding surfaces, not staining them.
303 saves me hours of work and I don't have to keep everyone off of the boat so that they don't get teak oil stains."