marine creatures attach themselves to your boat’s bottom Ablative Anti-fouling Paint: Ablative paint is a soft bottom
while it’s sitting in its slip or at its mooring. Barnacles repro- paint that is designed to wear away as your boat is used. As
duce rapidly and deposit millions of eggs, which cover the the water moving over the boat’s surface wears away the
boat’s bottom quickly once they get started. paint, fresh layers of biocide are continuously exposed, so
Plants: Weeds and water plants can also attach themselves that the anti-fouling characteristic is constantly refreshed as
to the boat, most often near the waterline where there’s long as some of the paint remains on the boat’s hull.
plenty of sunlight. Ablative anti-fouling paints can be applied over other anti-
Algae Slime: Algae can form a gloppy, gooey mess on your fouling paints, so that you don’t need to remove the previ-
boat’s bottom, blooming rapidly and creating an environ- ous paint before applying a fresh coat. It can be useful to
ment that attracts other organisms. This creates a nasty, apply two or three coats when applying an ablative anti-
hard-to-clean bottom situation, and slows your boat tremen- fouling paint. Ablative paints work well in marine environ-
dously when it’s moving through the water. ments with high levels of marine growth.
Lowtide Books & DVDsThe drawback to ablative paints is that, because it’s
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Rules explains all
timed-release fashion.
science of navigation through the ages to
With a focus on craft 65’ or larger, this the rules you will
After a period
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of time,
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6
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advances
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lavishly illustrated book incorporates need to know when
the paint has leached
made by our contemporaries.
out all of its biocides, and a new coat
of paint will be needed, thus increasing your haul-out fre-
interviews with naval architects, boats meet on the
quency and costs.
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interior designers, race course.
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and seasoned ocean right-of-way rules
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