Today I bought three colors of paint. When I looked at them next to my boat, I wasn’t happy with any of them

I also researched the nessesity of ‘bottom paint’ This extra expensive paint (that comes in maybe three different colors, black, white or blue) is important if my boat is going to stay in the water.

A question I’ve had to answer often since becoming a ‘boat owner’ is,: “Are you going to trailer it or leave it in the water?”

I have no trailer so, easy answer, I just didn’t fully understand why anyone cared.

At the boat store a seasoned boat owner-salty-older gentleman explained that if I didn’t have paint that repelled sea life, banacles would attach and have to be scaped off using a chemical cleaner and it would be time consuming and hard. Unless I pull it out of the water and store it on a trailer. Every time I use it.

Barnacles, I found out, will cause drag enough to slow the boat and cause the motor to have to work harder and maybe break(?)

In other words, barnacles cause enough problems to warrant spending sixty four to a hundred and twenty dollars on a little can of ‘bottom paint’ and deal with limited color choice, because as my new boat-owner friend pointed out, only the fish will see it.

I hope I’ll have better luck with choosing accent colors for the above water parts of my boat tomorrow.

The one brand of spray paint that I know, had few choices, the other was so far off the cap cover it might as well been a little whole different color entirely. (I loved the cap colors)