Many boat owners will never wash their boats. If your boat is on the water all the time, how could it possibly get dirty? The truth is your boat can collect dirty, grime, and salt from a day out on the water, that, over time, can corrode your paint and eventually ruin not just the appearance, but also the function of your boat. Here are just a few of the reasons that keeping your boat clean is so important:
- Keeps your boat safe – Regularly washing your boat prevents the kind of corrosion that could do serious damage to the structure of your boat. It also removes aquatic hitchhikers that might try to make your boat their home, but could also harm the hull. If you want to be able to safely operate your boat or yacht, keeping it clean will definitely help you do just that.
- Prevents serious repairs – Regularly cleaning your boat is one of the best ways to prevent serious repairs. Not only does cleaning your boat give you the opportunity to give it a thorough inspection (or to have your boat cleaner give it an inspection), the cleaner your boat is, the less likely it is to have a serious problem that needs professional attention.
- Keeps your boat looking great – Ignoring the dirt and salt that a boat will collect during normal use may not ever cause serious structural damage to your boat, but it can still ruin how your boat looks. If you want to keep your boat looking as beautiful as it did on the first day you took it out on the water, regularly cleaning it is one of the very best way to achieve this.
- Protect your boat from the elements – Even if your boat is not sitting at the dock, if it is stored on land, it might still be damaged by the elements. Just like rain, wind, sand, dust, etc. can damage your car’s coat of paint, the coat of paint on your boat can be damaged by the elements. Washing your boat will prevent the elements from having the chance to destroy what you’ve worked so hard to keep pristine.
How Oceanic Yacht Management Can Help
One of the biggest reasons most boat and yacht owners do not wash their boats is because the process can be a giant hassle. You do not want to spend as much time cleaning your boat as you do actually enjoying it. This is where Oceanic Yacht Management can help. We lift the burden of washing your boat from your shoulders. We keep that boat clean, even if you do not have the time or the desire to keep it clean yourself. Here are just some of the ways that we can help:
- We will use the right cleanser for your boat – Not every cleanser is created equally. What works great on a wooden hull may not work at all on other materials. Instead of you having to struggle to find the right soap for your boat, we already know which one to use to both keep your boat beautiful, prevent corrosion, and even protect the environment.
- We have the right equipment – Another major roadblock (besides time), is equipment. If you don’t have the right equipment for keeping your boat clean, it may take much longer and be much more difficult than it needs to be. We have the necessary equipment for cleaning just about every type of yacht or boat on the water.
- We have the knowhow – Getting and keeping a boat clean requires certain expertise. This is expertise that we have acquired over years of maintaining boats. We know not only what soap and equipment to use, but how to use so that it properly cleans your boat, and prevents damage—no matter what the material of your boat is.
- We go the extra mile – Not only will we wash your boat, we will also chamois your boat and even wax and/or detail it. These are only a fraction of our services—if you need an inspection, what your yacht fueled, need it delivered somewhere, or want the interior cleaned, we perform these, among other services.
Oceanic Yacht Management is here to ensure that your boat gets and stays clean—elongating its life and ensuring that you are able to spend the majority of your time with your boat just having fun!