Sailboat Bottom Paint Barrier Coat

Cleaning a dirty hull.

Sailboat bottom paint barrier coat.

Then proceed with painting. Barrier coats are epoxy based and epoxy sticks to just about anything making them an effective tie coat between virgin gelcoat and. Photos by roger marshall. Then you can launch and go sailing safe in the knowledge that your boat is protected in the best way possible.

Bottom paint aka antifouling paint is a paint or coating designed to discourage weeds barnacles and other aquatic organisms from attaching themselves to and in the case of wooden boats eating the underwater portion of your boat s hull. Size of boat type of paint on the bottom number of paint. After everyone including yourself has their boats wrapped up tight it s time to let the bottom paint fly and the hull dry. When the barrier coat has dried and hardened you can apply bottom paint in the color of your choice.

Dry time to recoat aluminum boat barrier coat over aluminum boat barrier coat. Not the case the entire bottom and sides of the boat looked like a 1960s popcorn ceiling i had to sand the entire boat down to the new fiber glass. There are three categories of projects that you may encounter in this area. Pricing for bottom paint stripping varies from 20 ft to 30 ft.

De waxing and then sanding is required and even then bottom paint often fails to stick. Bottom paints have traditionally accomplished this by inclusion of a biocide with copper being the. Applying a barrier coat is often about as easy as rolling on bottom paint and boat owners by the thousands have completed this project protecting their boats from osmotic blisters. If that time window is missed sand with 80 grit sandpaper and wipe the surface clean with a clean lint free cotton rag wetted with totalboat dewaxer surface prep and allow the.

Preemptive barrier coating on new boats blister repair alone and blister repair with. The boat is upside down and i was repairing the bottom so i rolled it out right away the paint dose not flow but i figured it would flatted out after a little bit. For banishing blisters below the waterline barrier coats can t be beat. The best time to strip a boat bottom is winter.

If the hull does not have an epoxy barrier coat this is a good time to consider applying this protection. Once the paint is stripped check for damage to the barrier coat that provides blister protection if there is one and patch it where necessary. Totalboat aluminum boat barrier coat can be recoated over itself for up to 60 days.