Antifouling Gold Coast

We provide a thorough and professional, yet cost effective antifouling service to ensure your vessel performs to it's maximum capacity and with better fuel efficiency. While your vessel is out of the water it creates an opportunity for have a good visual inspection to check that everything underwater is in good safe working order, and to check there aren’t any major maintenance concerns such as serious osmosis or early signs of electrolysis.

Pro-Care Marine Antifouling Process

• Travel lift boat out of water to hardstand
• Fresh water high pressure cleaner at 3500 p.s.i
• Acid wash above water line to clean brown moustache
• Underwater strainers, grates, skin and "through-hull" fittings thoroughly cleared and cleaned out
• All running gear and hull thouroughly prepared and primed
• Vessels with stern drive legs arevery thoroughly cleaned, we will trim and turn your leg many times to give us access to make sure we have got every last barnacle, coral worm and mussel out of those hard to get to spots, the bellows are particularly important to be clean and antifouled well as growth can actually cut the rubber when the stern drive is trimmed which will allow water into the gimbal bearing where it will rust and seize in a short time
• International Coatings™ antifouling coatings applied to manufacturers specs
  - Dry Film Thickness (DFT) of 75 microns
• Speedometer pickups cleaned
• Anodes changed if required (at cost price)
• Boat perfectly dry on hardstand before travel lift back to water (14hrs minimum)

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Occasionally when we lift a boat out of the water unforeseen below-water damage may be detected e.g. gouges, hull fractures or osmosis, in such events, we will contact you to discuss the problem and let you decide if you want to proceed with any repairs or upgrades. We would not proceed without your consent.

Maintenance / Inspection of your stern drive or pod

We strongly advise having a mechanical service to at least your stern drive/pods while the boat is out of the water.
The engine does not necessarily need to be out of the water to be serviced but it is a good idea to have both done at the same time. This way you will have peace of mind that you won’t have an overheated or failed motor when you go boating.

Anodes should be replaced every 12 months to protect stern leg and props from potentially heavy expensive corrosion.

Propspeed™

Propspeed is a catalyzed etch primer + silicone based top coat antifouling system designed for use on metal (underwater running gear).

Propspeed has very low friction with water; its finish is similar to that of glass.
Benefits of having Propspeed applied are:

• Increased engine revs (across all ranges)
• increased fuel economy
• increased boat speed

Making Prospeep a viable investment in your boat's performance.

Engines can rev 300-500 revolutions higher with Propspeed applied to the propellers compared to normal antifoul.
Areas of use for Propspeed are propellers, rudders, shafts, struts, IPS drives, Pod drives and sail drives.
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Pickup and delivery of vessel

We do offer a pick up and return boat service, however if it is possible we do prefer that you do this yourself.
Price for pickup and return delivery is dependent on how far the vessel has to travel and likely time it will take.

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How often should you Antifoul your boat?

Antifoul paint will typically give a service life of 12 months.

Antifouling annually will ensure constant satisfactory service, in terms of fuel efficiency and performance

You should lift your boat out of the water annually to change anodes, service stern legs, check over everything underwater such as skin fittings, props, shaft and rudder bearings etc. to prevent potentially costly damage.

Sandblasting

After many years (around 12-15) of annual recoating of antifoul, old antifoul can become brittle and weak in structure this happens because there are resins and solids that are designed to dissolve out of the antifoul paint during its life. Your boat will be at this point when you notice a lot of flaky, loose and cracking old antifoul.

Once the boat is at this stage it is time to remove the old antifoul by sandblasting and then starting again by applying 2 coats of 2 pack epoxy primer.

First time antifoul treatment process

For boats which have never been antifouled before a special treatment is required.

First we clean and abrade the hull and running gear and apply two coats of 2 pac epoxy primer followed by 2 coats of International Coatings™ antifoul.

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While you vessel is out of the water, it is also a great opportunity to:

• Buff polish/wax the hull
  - (we can Buff polish/wax topsides while on hardstand or back where your boat lives in the water; see our boat detailing webpage for more info.
• Raise antifoul line if required
• Apply or replace boot line striping vinyl stickers or other hull graphics
• Install bow thrusters
• Install underwater illumination

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