摘要: |
It's once again time to paint your workboat - be it a tug, towboat, passenger vessel, OSV, whatever. You wish, especially with everything costing more these days, that the paint job could be put off a bit longer. But at least it won't need to go into drydock for the same reason as a couple of years ago when the bottom paint didn't last nearly as long as it should have, and the boat had to be hauled to have the bottom repainted. And with an unexpected haul out, you don't bring in any money and must explain to customers why your boat is unavailable. The shipyard told you it would use another type of paint and provided a pamphlet extolling the paint's benefits. What was barely mentioned was anything about surface preparation - especially blasting the old paint off. |