Selecting the right anti-fouling bottom paint will increase ­efficiency throughout your season and keep your overall maintenance costs down as well. Looking at the big picture, you should consider ...

Dewax with no Volatile Organic Compound (VOC): The mold-release wax must be removed from new hulls. Apply Pettit’s Bio-Blue Hull Surface Prep 92 with a short-nap roller to a 5-by-5-foot area. Scrub ...

A friend who has a boatyard was talking about the advantages of using some of the newer-technology bottom paints on the market. As a facility owner, he is constantly under the scrutiny of regulating ...

Few maintenance jobs are as potentially gruesome as removing your boat’s bottom paint. Ordinarily, this odious job comes up after about 20 years of nonablative-paint residues have built up below the ...

Its a multi-season paint, specifically, Hydrocoat ECO is a, ” self-polishing ablative copolymer.” In this post I’ll report on the results of that use, but first some background information may be in ...