Struggling with a bottom-paint dilemma? We’re here to help. There are a lot of different bottom paints out there, so choosing the best antifouling coating for Mom’s Mink can be a challenge. To find ...

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 ...

Research and real world feedback from competitive sailors confirms that the best bottom paint systems largely depend on geographic location. Differences in temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and ...

Hundreds of years ago, sailors realized the benefits of using copper to reduce marine growth on wooden ship hulls. Before copper, hulls fouled rapidly, reducing speed and inviting marine worms to ...

Most people know marine growth on the hull causes drag that slows you down. Too many people don’t realize the paint itself can actually slow you down—and with too many layers of paints, the effect ...

The colonization of hulls by algae, barnacles, mussels and other organisms is a major problem for both pleasure boats and merchant tonnage. Researchers have now developed new environmentally-friendly ...

Mike Keyworth runs a premier boatyard operation at Brewer Cove Haven in Warren, R.I. His sage advice about bottom paint is a common sense game plan that starts with a reminder that two years ago the ...

Probably all who go down to the sea in small ships have pondered the conundrum that bedevils those of us who leave our boats in the water, as opposed to taking them out on a trailer. The question is ...

I never cried over spilt milk, at least not that I can recall, but I have cried for numerous other reasons and one of them was over a can of Woolsey green bottom paint. At the time I owned the ...