Simply put, any boat left in the water (especially saltwater) for an extended period of time without an effective coating of antifoul paint on it’s bottom will quickly begin to look like the unfortunate boats pictured below! Mother nature is well equipped to fully saturate our local marine waters with billions of microscopic baby barnacles as well as mini-mussels, gooey tube worms, stringy little algae spores and opportunistic oyster spat and they are all swimming around or moving on the tides looking for a friendly, uncrowded place to call home where they can attach themselves and grow up! What better place for these little critters to choose as a landing spot than a nice clean boat bottom?  To prevent this from happening  we apply specialized bottom coatings that have been formulated with ingredients that marine organisms find disagreeable and tend to avoid as they float through a harbor looking for nice spots to attach themselves. The infested boats pictured below were either not bottom painted before they were put in the water or their existing antifoul bottom coatings had finally lost their effectiveness after a few short years resulting in our friendly little sea creatures wasting no time in taking advantage of the opportunity. All these boats were moored in greater Puget Sound waters and were brought by their owners to our shop, Agate Pass Marine, for a major bottom makeover.

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