bottom paint

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Mel Aust

Wondering how long bottom paint will last in fresh water lake with boat in water year round
 
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Herb

Pratical sailor

Practical sailor just covered this and recomends repainting every year. I have followed this but I am in salt water fresh may be a little different
 
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Aldo

It can last for several Seasons

Just make sure that you are using ablative bottom paint. We only keep our boat in for 5 months a year, and it lasts around 3 seasons. It is in brackish water, so it's more important, otherwise we would get barnacles. Ablative paint can be scrubbed off if you had to., otherwiser, it just slowly disolves in the water. The older bottom paints had to be scraped or blasted off. It's no fun to scrape the entire bottom or a C-22. Aldo
 
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