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Towing my inflatable from Mobjack Bay, around to Texas, Sept thru Dec
In Response To: If we didn't do anything, would the results be that much different? 
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() Had to pull it out and scrape/scrub the bottom on average every three weeks, or the growth would slow the big boat, and for sure the dinghy. Barnacles and weed.
Cruising Ga, SC, NC, the Chesapeake during summer months, about the same.
Only spot over the last 2 1/2 years I DIDN'T have any growth was in the Bahamas.
I've been told Defender sells a bottom paint for inflatables, but haven't seen it.
Messages In This Thread
- Water-based bottom paint?
- There is an extensive study of bottom paint options in this month's Practical Sailor
- I've been using Hydrocoat. I too had a few pounds of shellfish stuck to the keel last fall.
- I've had good luck with Hydrocoat
- We used Hydrocoat
- I have been using hydrocoat for about 5 years...
- Another Hydrocoat user
- That's about where I am with it.
- About the same as you, Tom
- If we didn't do anything, would the results be that much different?
- This same thread is ongoing on the other board.
- Around here there would be a HUGE difference
- Towing my inflatable from Mobjack Bay, around to Texas, Sept thru Dec
- This same thread is ongoing on the other board.
- If we didn't do anything, would the results be that much different?
- About the same as you, Tom
- That's about where I am with it.
- There is an extensive study of bottom paint options in this month's Practical Sailor