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Paint companies have focused on environmental compliance, so all the heavy metals and chemicals that made marine paint strong are now gone.


correctly, the first time, contractors do not need to rework the job. They save on consumables, cut down on solvent use and keep their customer happy. It’s a win win!” He adds, “There may be nothing new on the paint market, but there is noticeably, a new attitude towards making the job more sustainable. People are making choices when it comes to painting a superyacht. It is no longer a case of what is best, it’s a case of what is better?”


Sherpa 63, he is in the business of helping others improve performance. He says, “Painting a superyacht is not cheap. But it is not only the cost of the final coating that has to be considered when looking at the price. Much of the cost of paining a superyacht lies in the preparation. Masking up areas to be painted, making sure other areas are not over sprayed are in themselves time consuming and heavy users of costly materials. If, when they are removed, the paint job does not pass muster, then not only will the repainting be costly so too will the process of masking up the job again.”


We need to cut down the waste of consumables,” he says. We must reduce the quantity of solvents used. They are many times more toxic and to a degree much more dangerous than other chemicals used while painting a yacht. By painting a yacht


One area where ‘better’ is the answer, is in the application of fillers, products that are used to fair out a hull and make it super smooth. Fillers are the basis of a good superyacht finish but in recent years they have been used in excess. Shipyards have in their bid to produce a superyacht hull more competitively have followed commercial ship building processes of cutting steel and welding hulls together in blocks. While it does not matter if the hull of a container ship or tanker is somewhat rippled, it does worry the superyacht owner who seeks a super shiny surface. There has been a tendency over years gone by to smooth out a hull using vast amounts of filler. The skim and skim of filler are applied adding weight with each layer. It is not uncommon for superyachts to be carrying blocks of filler on their sides that are more than 10 cm thick.


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