The Chesapeake Bay is known for brown water and rapid fouling, so any paint that can hang in there for 30 months is doing its job and is a good value. On the other hand, freezing water temperatures and very low salinity knock of a lot of the hard growth off over the winter, so we expect to see fewer barnacles in the spring than in the fall. But by April the days get longer, the bay is up to 50 F in the mainstream and 60 F in the marinas, and soft growth can make a jungle under your boat in no time.
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Great article, but I’m unable to see the column headings on the comparison chart in both Chrome and Safari browsers on a Mac. I’ll miss the paper version of PS in the near future if online tables and charts are not formatted so that we can read all elements with the same ease and clarity provided by the old paper versions of PS.