Boot Stripe Removal

[rcnight]

Gents: Not really a stripe removal question, but what to do with the shadow? With all my spare time, thought I'd clean-up the hull. The Poly-Glow kit seemed like the lest amount of work so going with that. Question is, what to do with the shadow. It's a fingernail snag above the rest of the hull. Do I sand it flush with the hull or will a shined up hull blend into it?