Antifouling Boat Paint can offer higher fuel costs

Polluted bottom boats up to 10% more fuel. This means that now more than ever, you must use the technology race sailboats used for years: anti-anti-copper / Teflon boat bottom paint. This easy to apply bottom paints, coatings or soil, can save the owner some money.
How non-stick type of racing boat-bottom paints work:

1. For the production of smooth walls, type of racing boat-bottom paints use the same molecule in non-utensils, the largest molecule known, with a coefficient of drag smoother than ice.

2. Copper is often integrated into the fast-type Teflon coating, which barnacles, zebra mussels, algae and other aquatic ecosystems and the growth of rejection rarely bind to your soil.

3. These coatings Slough as a piece of soap, with growth as the water flows on the hull, the boat bottom smooth.


A number of negative aspects of the use of anti-adhesive, race, boat-based coatings:

1. The boat requires low recoating every two years if the port of arrival.

2. Sanding is necessary a few years, so the next layer will be good.

3. The boat has a colored background darker than the copper oxidizes, turning a dark brown / gray.


Costs May not be a factor. A 20 - to 30-ft. vessel may be coated with less than $ 100 in materials. Not bad price to pay for 10% savings in fuel costs.
Protect your boat low growth also contributes to maintain the value of your boat. In the past, the hulls of ships to corrosion plagued the 2 / 3 of steel during the lifetime of the vessel. But today, with Teflon-type urethane flooring, ships can go 11 or 12 years without recoating or loss of steel thickness. In 70 years, the U. S. Navy tested the anti-stick coatings on five ships and have the impression that the residual growth that are not at your speed from 10 to 15 knots were reached can be removed with a simple pressure washing. This eliminated the grinding and hull wear.