Cleaning Hull 1st time after bottom paint

Larry Patrick

Will be pulling boat in oct after being in water all season,Had it painted at Weffings last winter.Should you use a power washer or scrub by hand? Don't want to wear offpaint faster than I should. When anchored at beach seems like a good amount of the grime will come off in water. Next outing will brush the hull while it still is warm enough to do in the lake. Just wondering when its home for final cleaning.

South of Heaven · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:18 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I'm interested in the response to Larry's question too. I just had my new boat bottom painted a few weeks ago. Its in salt water now and will remain there until late October/ early November.

BrentB · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:51 pm Post subject:

Bottom paint brand and product name?

thataway · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:50 pm Post subject:

As Brent notes, you will treat different bottom paints differently. I use Petit Vivid, and have used a low pressure washer/and occasional green scouring pad.

With the harder paints, you will use higher power, and more aggressive cleaning. Many times a good bottom paint, and a boat used regularly, you may only need to hit a few places around the water line. I generally put on at least 2, and usually 3 coats of paint, and an extra coat along the sides of the hull from the water line to the chine. Generally this gets me 3 to 4 years, in brackish to fresh water (we were using the boat for 3 months in the Keys, and had more fouling there than at home.

When we were racing sailboats, we used a scouring pad, or 1200 sandpaper every week, with a hard epoxy paint.

Will-C

I think he uses Mar Pro Super Gold. It's pretty hard stuff and I pressure washed ours after a couple months in the keys. Pretty tough stuff.
D.D.

Larry Patrick · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 7:09 pm Post subject:

I left the decision up to Marc because he would know better than I. Told him it would be used in salt and freshwater. I don't remember which product he used,I did mention Dave Deem had his Ranger painted with him previously and highly recommends their services. So im not sure which paint he was used but probably what Dave mentioned.

BrentB · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 9:31 pm Post subject:

problem solved good luck

Phil Barnes

We had the CD 22 painted with Petit Vivid at Bitterend Boatworks in Bellingham in May. Pulled it out last week after several months in the water.

I used a soft boat brush on most of it to remove the soft green slime that wasn't removed from running the boat for several hours on the last trip that day. I could have wiped it off with a rag. No scrubbing needed and very little paint was removed due to the soft brush.

A rough brush was used around the engines and along the contact line between the bottom paint and the hull (where the bottom paint could have been brought up a bit higher).

Pleased with the result and it sure made clean up easier as we had no bottom paint before and would spend the better part of a day scrapping barnacles and cleaning after two months in the water.

The boat had multiple barrier coats and 3 coats of bottom paint after preping the hull by blasting with walnut or pecan shells.

Larry Patrick · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2016 5:01 pm Post subject:

Good to hear Phil thanks.

BrentB · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 10:34 am Post subject:

Contact Marc at Wefings for info, too

Larry Patrick · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 7:40 pm Post subject:

Just brought boat home yesterday,cleaned it today. Wow first time cleaning a boat without muriatic acid or hull cleaner . Just a soft brush and a magic eraser in tougher spots. Nice having bottom paint ,it was a real headache other seasons trying to clean hull. Paint job Probabally pay for itself over several years. After 2 hrs trying to clean hull myself last season took it and paid around $250 to get it cleaned.

South of Heaven · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 9:20 pm Post subject:

Larry Patrick · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:24 pm Post subject:

When they bottom painted they covered the transducers trim tabs ect,very easy cleaning.

BTDT · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 8:14 pm Post subject:

FWIW- I am very pleased with the performance of Pettit Hydrocoat SR. A water based anti-fouling paint that is now on it's third year and is holding up quite well. I used a touch up quart last fall but see no reason to touch-up this fall. Great stuff in my humble opinion

hardee · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 2:54 pm Post subject:

Are there any other reports comparing Vivid to Hyrocoat? I have been talking to Jesse at BitterEnd Boat Works and he is still recommending Vivid over the Hydorcoat, mostly because the Hydorcoat is newer and less experience with it I believe.

Harvey
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