The percentage of a tin compound allowed in a bottom paint is likely to be rigidly controlled.

Eventually, oxides of copper were ground up and added to various liquid media to produce the first true bottom paints.

The periscope shears yielded "a good sample of Japanese bottom paint."

Apply a coat of bottom paint, making sure to follow the manufacturer's directions for the type of boat you own.

The smell of fresh bottom paint is returning to the boat yards of City Island.

This results in a more effective bottom paint that requires lower biocide levels to deliver full antifouling protection.

For underwater ship hulls bottom paints are applied.

Hard bottom paints also include Teflon and silicone coatings, which are too slippery for growth to stick.

The organo-tins seemed ideal for bottom paints.

A major disadvantage of bottom paints made with copper is that they are difficult to use on hulls built of most metals.

Scrubbing a hull with sloughing bottom paint while it is in the water releases its biocides into the environment.

If the bottom paint is chipping, you will have to scrape it clean, then apply ascending grades of sandpaper.

She needs new bottom paint."

Over the last 20 years, tin-based bottom paints took over the huge commercial bottom-paint industry, and spread quickly into the recreational-boating market.

"You have toxic bottom paint?"

These products have been developed in response to the increasing scrutiny that copper-based ablative bottom paints have received as environmental pollutants.

Anti-fouling paint (or bottom paint) is used to protect the hulls of boats from fouling by marine organisms.

If the marina is built, Ms. Bowers added, additional harm would be caused by pollution from sewage and bottom paint from 800 boats.

Seeking non-smoking, mature crew to help with the launch (engine maintenance and bottom paint) and then to sail the rest of the summer (shared expenses).

"Hard" bottom paints, or "non-sloughing" bottom paints, come in several types.

Just like Alakai, the vessel features environmentally friendly technologies including non-toxic bottom paint, zero wastewater discharge and clean diesel engines.

Anti-fouling paint, or bottom paint, prevents barnacles and other marine organisms from adhering to the hulls of ships.

Among them are fecal contamination from boats or shoreline septic systems, heavy metals from bottom paint or land sources, and nutrients like fertilizers.

Clean Boating Tip Sheet, Selecting a Bottom Paint, .

Both Awlstar and Micron CSC are advertised to be more effective than traditional copper bottom paints.