Re: To Paint or Not to Paint
Hello folks, i was curious if i should paint my boat over the winter.there is no bottom paint on boat (she is a 95) and I keep it in water most of the time. i have to pull it out every 3-4 weeks. But i was wondering what are pros to painting and what are the cons to painting. Bottom painting that is.
Pros: you spend more time using your boat, not cleaning it
You don't damage the engine by "lugging" it with a fouled bottom
With a proper Epoxy barrier coat you eliminate any possibility of blisters
Your boat uses less fuel with a clean bottom
Cons: Appearance
Value, but only if your boat is really a trailerable boat that everyone else in your area always trailers.
(Like my 21' cuddy here in Illinois. Almost everyone else would trailer it, so if i painted the bottom, most people wouldn't like that. But if I owned a 34' Carver cruiser, Everyone keeps them in the water, so good & proper bottom paint would increase its value at selling time.)
