- Jan 22, 2008
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For those of you sailing on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota, what brand and type of bottom paint have you found to be most effective? I have been using Petit Vivid on my 17' trailer sailor (kept on a mooring on the Upper Lake) for several years. It was initially very effective but this last season the slime was especially thick and there were some patches of zebra mussels. The bottom of my boat actually looked worse than that of my next door neighbor's even though he does not use any bottom paint at all. Admittedly, his is a power boat that doesn't suffer the low speeds of a small sailboat. I do use my boat about 3 times a week.