Costing: Understand cost factors—from drydock time to paint selection and manpower.
Hull Roughness & Performance: How roughness impacts resistance, fuel consumption, and hull degradation.
Types of Paints: Explore antifouling, self-polishing, hard coatings, silicone, and advanced systems.
Surface Preparation: Importance of grit blasting, cleanliness grades, and surface profile specs.
Paint Application Methods: Spraying, brushing, rolling—plus onboard vs dockyard techniques.
Paint Thickness & Coating Build-Up: Dry Film Thickness (DFT) requirements and application challenges.
Drying and Curing: Time, temperature, and humidity dependencies you can’t ignore.
Inspection and Testing: Visual checks, adhesion testing, thickness checks, and surface tolerance.
How Not to Paint a Ship’s Hull: Common mistakes: wrong paint, poor prep, rushed application—what to avoid.
Paperwork and Documentation: Coating reports, test certificates, paint logs, and audit readiness.