The best bottom paint for your boat depends on the type of boat you have how you use it and where you use it.
Epoxy bottom paint.
Boat bottom paints that are a hard modified marine epoxy paint that does not wear off over time.
Most bottom paint systems are compatible with epoxy and can be applied directly over a prepared epoxy barrier coat.
Types of bottom paint include ablative antifouling paint and modified epoxy antifouling paint plus hard vinyl and thin film paint.
A final coat of resin hardener mixture alone will seal the filler and you re then ready for bottom paint.
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Typically these marine epoxy paints have higher concentrations of copper.
The barrier coat will protect and seal the hull.
An epoxy barrier coat must be applied to seal the hull prior to bottom paint.
Some epoxy bottom paint makers provide a gauge to enable you to see how this your paint layer is.
Environmental regulations also have a bearing on paint selection.
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After you apply a hard bottom paint it is very durable and does not wear off.
If you have a gauge use it in some cases this means applying two or three coats to get the required thickness.
Deep pockets or large areas may require a few coats of epoxy filler compound although the material will cure even if it is applied in a thick layer.
When the void is filled sand the surface to match the surrounding hull contours.
Antifouling paint alone will not prevent this from occurring.
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Protection is always better than the cure.
Hard bottom paints ypically have a higher ratio of pesticides usually copper in them that are exposed in the outer surface of the bottom paint coating.
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Hard bottom paint is bottom paint that is a hard modified epoxy.
The antifouling paint provides protection against barnacles mussels weeds and slime.
If you are unsure of compatibility or have curing or adhesion problems with a specific bottom paint use only a primer recommended for that bottom paint over the barrier coat.