Tag: Coppercoat

Big, Big Day!

Hunger Games?  Anyone? Yesterday was a fine, momentous occasion.  Shearwater is now in the water and acting like a boat!  Ah, the smell of the sea, the sound of wind in the ringing, the gentle rock of the boat to the waves.  At least that is how I imagine it from my desk in Madrid.

Decisions…bottom paint #2

For us, choosing an “environmentally-friendly” versus “traditional” paint really isn’t that hard of a choice.  We will do what we can to minimize our impact, and if that means we have to clean the bottom of our boat more often and/or haul out to repaint the bottom more frequently, then so be it.  So, what

Decisions…bottom paint #1

Photo by Leonardo Ré-Jorge

A boat that sits in saltwater for more than a few days at a time must have anti-fouling bottom paint, otherwise the hull becomes covered in a delightful variety of slime, weed, barnacles, sponges, etc.  For a marine biologist, having a marine ecosystem travel along with you could be fantastic, but for a boat where