There may be snow on the ground is I write this, but it’ll soon be time to think about repainting the hull for a new season of cruising. In some ways, the antifouling options haven’t changed in years, with the same choice between a cheaper resin-based paint, multi-season self-eroding coating, or a hard racing paint. But in other ways, the market is unrecognisable with a welter of novel products and solutions to the problem of biofouling.
We’ll summarise the key choices