I have an older boat (a 1990 27 ft cruiser) that had a strange partial bottom paint on it that was mostly worn off and ready to be applied anyway.
By 'strange partial' I mean that the bottom paint didn't even come close to being above the water line as you moved to the stern of the boat, but was above the water line at the bow. It really made me wonder why someone would bottom paint a boat like this. It makes no sense at all.
When cleaning the boat with On-Off this past fall (wow is that easy to do), it also removed most of the worn out bottom paint too. If I hadn't run out of On-Off and daylight last fall, I would have continued to remove the rest of the old bottom paint as it's so easy to clean the hull with the On-Off.
So if you are thinking of bottom painting your boat for the lake, ask yourself why? The bottom cleaners are very easy to use and inexpensive.
To those that don't like bottom paint on a boat, it's probably very easy to remove it if you dont like it, especially on a fiberglass boat. So don't rule out a bottom painted boat.
Now that I'm going to be selling my boat, I'm trying to decide if I should finish the job of removing the old bottom paint. It almost washes off with the right 'remover'.
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