Commercial Diving
starting at $1.50 per foot
Why Is It Important To Keep Your Boat Clean?
There are many advantages to keeping your boat hull clean. With consistent cleaning, bottom paint lasts longer, growth of algae and other organisms is controlled, and unnecessary weight is removed. Removing this growth maintains the hydrodynamics of your boat and improves fuel economy. With the price of gas lightening your load can make a big difference in your budget and in the performance of your boat.
Furthermore, preserving your bottom paint extends the period of time between repainting and maintenance, and also reduces the amount of cleaning that must occur before dry-dock work can begin, saving you time and money in the long run.
How Often Should You Clean The Hull On Your Boat?
For most boats a cleaning every 2-3 months is sufficient for maintaining bottom paint, controlling marine growth, and checking zincs. However, cleaning frequency differs for each vessel, depending on the quality and weathering of the bottom paint. Cleaning costs $2-5 per foot depending on the harbor you’re slipped in and the degree of cleaning needed. Give us a call for a free estimate.
What About Protection From Galvanic Corrosion?
Protecting your boat from corrosion is of utmost importance. Corrosion can occur anytime two metals are immersed in saltwater because electrical current flows between them. Power lines connected to your boat while it’s in the slip increase the electrical current in the harbor, resulting in increased corrosion of metallic objects on your boat. This corrosion can be costly if it destroys metal parts such as props, struts or shafts. However, Monterey Bay Diving can install sacrificial zinc anodes to protect your boat from unnecessary corrosion.
Zincs must be exposed to seawater to protect your boat. Therefore, it is important that they are not covered with paint. It is also important to achieve a strong connection between the zinc and the metal that it’s protecting in order to maximize the effectiveness of the zincs. Our experienced divers check the quality of the zinc anodes every time we clean the hull of a boat. If they are worn greater than 50% we replace them, relieving you of the burden of monitoring the zincs yourself, and keeping your boat in good condition.
The cost of installing the first zinc is $30 and $20 for each additional zinc. The zincs themselves are priced based on size and type of zinc.
Mooring Services
Monterey Bay Diving offers mooring inspections and repairs. Securing a boat properly is essential to the safety of your boat and the other boats in the harbor. Our mooring work is compliant with Harbor Office standards, and we offer free mooring inspections to customers who are on a quarterly cleaning schedule. Mooring inspections for other customers cost $30. The cost of replacing a mooring system varies greatly but we are always willing to give you a free estimate.