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EPA to restrict bottom paint booster
The Environmental Protection Agency's on-again, off-again relationship with the antifouling agent Irgarol 1051 is on the rocks again. While most of the country was...
Digging Into Bottom Paint Removal
If you are looking at your hull and thinking about stripping back all the bottom paint and perhaps applying a barrier coat, here are...
Freshwater Bottom Paint Test
We weren't too surprised to learn that Irgarol 1051, an antifouling paint additive that last year was awaiting U.S. Environmental Protection Administration certification, has...
Bottom Paint Stripping
My husband, Ken was in the fiberglass business for over 25 years. We intend to take off all of our boat’s bottom paint (about...
Bottom Paint 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...
What About Bottom Paint for Inflatable Boats?
There are two schools of thought when it comes to applying antifouling paint to an inflatable-bottom dinghy (as opposed to a RIB, which has...
Bottom Paint Anti-slime Additive Goes Away
CHOOSING A BOTTOM PAINTOur advice for choosing a bottom paint remains the same as always: Make sure the paint is compatible with your existing...
Choosing a Bottom Paint
It's easy enough to choose the most effective paint from our bottom paint reports, but that paint might not always be the best for...
Bottom Paint Grudge Match
At Practical Sailor, we sift and filter through marine products to evaluate them so that you don't have to. Our annual bottom paint test...
Picking the Best Bottom Paint
This month's report on bottom preparation is another reminder that the most effective paint as determined by our past testing might not always be...