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painting the bottom with a quality paint, will help with growth and fowling, a fried on mine would let his sport boat stay in the water for up to 2 weeks with no bottom paint, when he'd clean it up, every where the painted stripe on the hull side was below water line, the growth would spray right off, every where it was on gel he'd have to scrub it.

I used to work for a company that built street sweepers, lots of municipalities would require the trucks to be painted with a graffiti resistant paint, you could spray paint on it , allow it to dry and wipe it off a couple of days later with a rag and some mineral spirits, I've often thought that paint would make a cool bottom paint, it was a type of Imron