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White Paint Match-up

Paints April 6, 2005

One of the long-standing complaints about bottom paint—besides its cost and laborious, monotonous application on an annual basis—is the way it looks. Some sailors...

Bottom Paint 2005

Paints February 7, 2005

Florida ResultsThe panels in Florida were much cleaner than the panels in Connecticut. As you see in the chart, seven paints came away with...

Teak Treatment All-Stars Finale

Paints January 11, 2005

]That left eight of these products to soldier on. Mind you, all of them had ranked one, two or three in previous separate tests....

Bottom Paint 2004

Paints January 29, 2004

About the only thing that's predictable about them is that they're unpredictable. That's what the experts say about sharks and twisters, and we've always...

Underwater Metal Coatings: Test Results

Paints January 11, 2004

We reported in the August 1, 2003 issue on the phasing out of tributyltin (TBT) as the biocide of choice for antifouling paints. While...

Topside Paint Finale

Paints December 11, 2003

Which topside gloss enamel should you apply to make your aging beauty again glisten in dawn's early light? Here are the answers, in absolutely the...

Teak Treatment All-Stars After Six Months

Paints October 9, 2003

Over the years, teak treatments and marine varnishes have been exhaustively tested by Practical Sailor. We can't recall when a test frame of some...

Antifouling Choices for Underwater Metals

Paints July 13, 2003

Propellers, shafts, struts, outboard and Saildrive engine housings, and through-hull fittings, composed variously of bronze, stainless, and aluminum, are notoriously difficult to keep...

Offshore Log: Gelcoat Maintenance

Paints May 13, 2003

Painting fiberglass boats is a huge business. The development of high-gloss, long-lived polyurethanes means you can get multiple years out of a paint job....