Rub rail restoration

I checked the forum for info on this and didn’t find any. I would like to know if anyone has any experience taking them off, wet, sand, and polish. And just put them back on.
Seems pretty straightforward but as usual, I suspect it’s not.

Agree, Those do look a wee bit rough, but they do sand and polish (many steps)

Many of us here have changed them, it's not hard and really transforms the look. If I remember correctly Steve Workman, 62wood here took some off, sanded and polished. The most difficult part of putting them on new is shipping- they are 12' long and require truck shipment which is very expensive. When I did mine I was able to get them at West Marine which avoided the truck shipment since they already have trucks going to their stores. Can't remember the details now but for some reason I needed one more piece and West had no more/could not get any more but was able to get a length from a member here who had extra on hand. You also don't try to line up the new trim to the old holes just drill new with these type of bits. Fill old holes with something like 5200 and after drilling your new holes don't forget to countersink them to prevent gelcoat cracking.