Boat Antifouling Services in Mallorca

Yacht antifouling treatment

The antifouling for boats in Mallorca is a preventive maintenance measure for the boat to avoid osmosis. To apply antifouling to the boat’s hull there is a process. The function of antifouling is to prevent osmosis for the boat and to avoid the encrusting of marine elements to reduce the friction with the water. The antifouling should be done annually for all those boats that have little movement and their dry-docking is possible.

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Fibreglass repairs

Gel Coat repairs

Sand blasting

Change of sacrificial anodes

Galvanic current testing

Epoxy primers

Repair with epoxy fillers

Professional guarantee

Propspeed treatment

These are long-lasting non-stick coatings for submerged surfaces, especially suitable for propellers, shafts, propellers, rudders, jet-drives, Z-drives, IPS tails, cooling grids, transducers and underwater lights... they prevent the anchoring of marine micro-organisms. The Propspeed range of coatings are the best alternative to antifouling for boats that poison the marine environment.

Antifouling services in Mallorca

Sanding of the old antifouling by machine or sandblasting (boat sandblasting).
- If it has been sanded down to gel coat, a primer must be applied to the fiberglass with Epoxy or Polyester resin and then antifouling can be applied to the boat
- If a basic sanding of the boat has been done, antifouling may be applied to the boat’s hull.
The preparation work is essential and represents the success of a good antifouling protection. We will start by checking the hull and its elements to repair any rust spots on the bulb or rudder blows. We must cover with adhesive paper the sensors of the slide and other gauges that the hull will have installed.
In the process between sanding the hull of the boat and painting the boat with antifouling, we putty and protect those imperfections of the hull, in our case with Hempel marine material.
We must check the anodes and in general always carry out or change the anodes.
Depending on the material used, whether it is Hempel, International or other brands of antifouling, the manufacturer recommends the thickness of the antifouling coatings and the number of coats.
The tails can be cleaned by water blasting or sandblasting and then the antifouling can be applied. The propellers can be sanded but always respecting the manufacturer’s thickness, never sand them with abrasive. The shafts should be checked for pitting, small notches caused by galvanic currents that weaken the shafts.
Apply in our case propspeed on shafts and propellers for the boat, antifouling.

The antifouling paints are made up of a resin in which a pigment has been dissolved to give colour to the product and other products such as biocides that will prevent algae and other forms of life from attaching.