Boat Hull Cleaning
Hull Cleaning Services - To Put Your Mind at Ease!
Are barnacles, muscles and other hard-shell growth damaging your paint? Have your sacrificial zinc anodes been forgotten and now your running gear and propeller are corroding?
Did you know that by regularly investing a small amount in hull cleaning, you stand to save over 40% of fuel costs? Moreover, habitually cleaning the bottom of your boat helps heighten the performance of your vessel. In effect, boat hull cleaning is a process that pays for itself because you not only save on fuel, but also on other anti-corrosion precautions such as zinc anode monitoring and installation.
Boat hull cleaning in Miami, Florida is a task best left to the experts and that’s precisely where we, at Slippery Sailors Dive Services come into the picture. The warm climate encourages the proliferation of marine growth on your boat’s bottom. Professionally cleaning the hull of these micro-organisms ensures that your hull paint is able to last its entire life cycle.
Our divers inspect your boat as they clean. Divers are trained in corrosion control and problem recognition and a diver report is forwarded to management and you are informed accordingly. Our divers specialize in dealing with tricky underwater hull cleaning situations including dirty water and marine pollutants like oily bilge water among other things. They battle everyday risks such as ear and throat infection caused by polluted water. Divers are a hardy bunch and only a few choose bottom cleaning in Miami, Florida as full time employment.
We advise against customers opting to perform underwater maintenance themselves—it’s not only a frustrating experience, but also leads to poor quality work. Having Slippery Sailors Dive Services in Miami, Florida perform your underwater boat hull cleaning is the best solution to put your mind at ease. We use only the best and most gentle products to clean your hull so that your expensive paint coat is not adversely affected.
When you choose Slippery Sailors Dive Service in Miami, Florida, you bargain for much more. You get knowledge, professional service and peace of mind.
FACTS:
Your boat in Miami, Florida is a perfect feeding and breeding ground for organisms such as the tube worm, which are small coral-like strands that grow on unpainted areas of your boat, or areas that have weak anti-fouling paint. The worms rapid growth and colonization can seriously affect the performance of your vessel, especially during the summer months.
The winter months will bring very dirty rainwater into the Miami, Florida that affects the look of your vessel, but worse still, this run off has a high nitrogen content, from agriculture use, and fertilizes the algae, allowing it to bloom out of control. This wide spread growth will attach to your waterline and exposed trailing edge area of your boat, making your boat look unsightly. We are often asked, “why has my boat not been cleaned this month” during the winter months, when in fact it has. The algae, after cleaning, will grow back in days. If your vessel is not cleaned on a regular basis, you will use a considerable amount of extra fuel (20 – 25% tests show, increasing the longer your boat is left uncleaned) getting to your destination, overheat engines due to lack of water flow into cooling systems. And possibly not have adequate safe control of your vessel.
Monohulls
Power Boats
Catamarans
Trimarans
Save $0.25 per foot on Monthly cleaning schedule Starting as low as $3.25/foot!
How often should my boat hull be cleaned?
Cleaning the hull often means using the softest cleaning pads which makes your anti fouling paint last longer. Neglecting hull cleaning means more abrasive brushes and scraping tools will need to be used when you finally do get it cleaned. The ideal cleaning for your paint in the San Francisco Bay Area is every 2 months. This ensures your bottom paint job can last three years or more, as opposed to only two years with infrequent and harsh cleaning.
But let’s take a look at the math for a 36′ sailboat over 10 years:
2 Month Cleaning
painted every 3 years
$3000 bottom paint job x 3 = $9,000
$108 hull cleaning (6 times/year x 10) = $6,480
Total Cost over 10 years = $15,480
3 Month Cleaning
painted every 2 years
$3000 bottom paint job x 5 = $15,000
$108 hull cleaning (4 times/year x 10) = $4,320
Total Cost over 10 years = $19,320