Star Brite Heavy Duty Boat Bottom Cleaner - Remove Deposits, Scum Lines & Rust Stains Quickly & Easily from Boat Hull - Safe for Fiberglass, Wood, Iron & Painted Surfaces

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This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. As a rule, 100 grit aluminum oxide paper in a sander such as the Makita 04510 will do an adequate job of surface preparation prior to the application of epoxy primer. Remove all sanding residue with an air hose, a vacuum cleaner, or a solvent wipedown before priming. If you use solvent, it must be compatible with the epoxy primer used. The thinner for the primer is usually the best choice. It’s not just a question of moving from dirty to clean water, but any dramatic change in the water environment will challenge the growth that’s built up. Hull cleaning: Scrub or scrape?

If you’ve cut down through the primer to the gelcoat in only a few places, touch these up with a patch coat of epoxy primer before applying another full coat. If you’ve cut through in a lot of places, either your hull surface is uneven or you used too coarse a grit of sandpaper. If you need to spot prime more than about 10% of the bottom, just put on another full coat. It will go faster than a spot prime coat. If the water is warm, an old Lycra dive skin or a loose pair of pants and a long-sleeve t-shirt will work. Consider this sacrificial clothing that may get cut instead of your skin. If it’s colder, wear your wetsuit, but put the sacrificial clothing over it. We like to wear a Lycra dive hood to keep stuff we’ve scraped off the hull out of our hair. Cheap jersey gloves work well to protect your hands. A Couple of Safety Items I prefer to use bottom paints like this on my Jeanneau cabin cruiser, which I like to take for my longest cruises. Mostly, it’s because of the sheer longevity of this paint. The longest I’ve made it with a single hard coating is two and a half years on solely freshwater with a combination of dry and wet storage. A disadvantage of using cleaning pads to clean a boat hull in the water is it requires a lot of elbow grease and force to thoroughly clean the hull underwater. This bottom paint is specifically manufactured with copper-free copolymer ablative antifouling paint that is intended to guarantee high-caliber one-season shield against weeds, slime and barnacles on wood, fiberglass and aluminum vessels, underneath the waterline. Likewise, this comes with zinc and potent Econea formulation that makes it harmless to the planet we live in and a risk-free option for underwater metals and aluminum.Ablative Bottom Paint. This is softer and enables the coating to subside at a regulated rate. This is the reason why it is was called self-polishing bottom paint. The disappearance of paint enables for new, un-oxidized paint to be uncovered. Be sure to thoroughly clean the little openings between the rudder and skeg or keel, and any other areas where one surface moves against another – the “hinge” areas of the rudder assembly and a feathering prop, if you have one. The cleaner you keep these areas, the freer the parts will move. Also, any barnacles caught between two moving surfaces will grind away at them, requiring expensive Painting Proper application of bottom paint varies with the type of paint used. As a rule, the preparation you have done is far more thorough than that recommended by the paint manufacturer, and you may undo your hard hours of labor if you blithely slap on a coat of paint. Not all antifouling is made equal and to have the best chance of keeping your boat’s hull clean and clear of barnacles we recommend using our ultrasonic antifouling devices. These use small transducers attached to the boat hull to emit a very high frequency sound wave that causes the hull and the water around the hull to vibrate, preventing the attachment of biofouling. Put the rotary brush into the water and scrub along the underwater hull: Use the extended rotary brush and its built-in buoyance to scrub the hull in the water with force. The hard bristle rotary scrub will remove

Suitable for all ages: Glass bottom boat tours are suitable for all ages, and are a fun and safe way to explore the underwater world. This is an important thing for parents of small children to remember: the stops made for swimming are often made in the open sea and not at a beach, so you won’t be able to touch the bottom. Wearing an old wetsuit when you clean the bottom of your boat can protect your skin from cuts and scrapes. Use an old wetsuit though as it is likely to get damaged in the process. Snorkeling gear This saves energy positioning my body, although when I release the catches it can take a bit of effort to detach it.Applying bottom paint can be done professionally by spraying. However, this can pose the hazards of inhaling dangerous particles and vapors. Naturally, you want to be able to properly paint the bottom of your vessel without taking two gallons or more just to get the results you want. Of course, this should always be relative to the quality of the paint. For most boat owners, this is an optional step to clean the hull that will not be needed if the above steps are followed. Some marine paints work just as well as bottom paints, especially if they offer optimal corrosion and rust protection. They may not be able to keep marine organisms’ infestation at bay, but if you know that the water conditions you regularly subject your vessel to don’t really need protection from them, then hard paints will do