The great catamaran clean-up

For the environment: A filepic of volunteers taking part in a previous clean-up at Port Klang.

LAST month, we had a very exciting month with Edu-Cat, our Lagoon 500 catamaran. Let me explain: boats need lots of TLC (tender loving care) and regular maintenance if you want to keep them in good shape.

One of the most important things to do is the periodic anti-foul. Sounds pretty bad, but it is actually a maintenance process to protect the boat and prevent it from getting damaged below the waterline, where a vessel is constantly exposed to shells, worms, barnacles, dirty water and other rubbish. That’s why there is a protective paint coating, which needs to be renewed periodically, usually every 12 to 18 months. In order to renew this protective coating, the boat has to be hauled out of the water and that was our project for September.