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WORKBOAT MAINTENANCE

Sailor scraping barnacles from the bottom of a rigid-hull in? atable boat aboard an aircraft carrier.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Christopher Frost/Released a much greater challenge for deepwater vessels compared there is little difference between coatings for workboats and to brown water workboats. deepwater vessels. That said; workboats typically have easier

One resource available to ship owners regarding this and more frequent access to divers and hull cleaners.

issue is the encyclopedic nature of catalogues of marine If the owner of a workboat entrusts the application of species that are observed on ship hulls by various research coatings to unskilled or unquali