Question is.....if I trailer my boat and have to wash it every time I go from one lake to another. Do I need to paint the bottom with antifouling paint?
Just a days worth of boating. Maybe overnight a couple of times a year. The boat I bought had been painted but it's oxidizing and I'm thinking of stripping it.
no antifouling paint is needed if the boat is trailered each time you use it. You could leave it in the lake for a week, w/o issue. Most lakes do not have much growth anyway.
I leave my boat in saltwater for up to two weeks at least one time in the summer, the rest of the time it's on the trailer or on the river for day trips. After it sits in the nasty bay saltwater for a couple weeks it takes some good cleaning to get the gunk off but it still wouldn't be worth painting.
The laws vary from place to place. Some places require the boat to be cleaned off when it exits a body of water.
Regardless, a trailered boat that's hopping from lake to lake really doesn't need anti-fouling paint. Anti-fouling paint is more or less intended for a boat that's going to spend some time in the ocean.
