Bottom Paint Maintenance

Bottom Paint Maintenance

Let's discuss what bottom paint maintenance means and why do you need it. Maintaining your bottom paint is necessary because of all the pollution floating around in the water. Just recently a sailboat pumped it's entire holding tank overboard into the Salty Sam's Marina.

The water cops were called and it was determined that it was an accident but the increase of sewage probably fouled many bottoms in the marina. Just as the oil pollution from many commercial and pleasure boats. You can often smell the Diesel in the water around the back bay at night.

When the pollution covers the paint, stuff grows. That is why most smart boaters apply a second coat on the waterline especially for ablative paints because scrubbing oil or other stuff off the waterline removes some paint. Best to have a diver clean affected areas.

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