Why Bottom Coating Matters on SUP Customs Catamaran Builds.

Yeah, hey everyone, David, SUP Customs. I'm in the middle of getting ready for a big coating job on a company that ordered a bunch of boards for some seagrass restoration, some oyster bed restoration, some beach cleanup. So we are getting ready for to paint, between customer boards and them, 11 boards, 12 boards. So what we're doing this weekend is canceling our content day, and we're going to get our boards set. We bought these boards in about July of last year, August, and we know, we we we know what they can do without the bottom

coating. So we ran them for a while, but now it's time to get the bottom coating. As you can see, just kept some protection on it with some tape from a friend that joined me on Austin's board. We put some U waterproof tape, G Gorilla Tape kind of thing. But now it's time to, to, to coat these LIVE Water Sports boards and, and bombproof the bottoms. This is a great example of why you need it. If you're a current owner of a LIVE Watersports board, we can paint yours — that's what we're doing today. We're doing an LX for gentleman out of

Jacksonville area. So if you find that you're getting down through your gel to your fiberglass — even if you're to fiberglass like Austin is — we can just coat right over that. Most likely it's going to be on the front here, what wears the most. That's why we put the keel guard for 3 and 1/2 ft, cuz then every time you hit a rock, every time you hit your boat ramp, it slides or anything like that, that couple millimeter thick keel guard will cover that. And then we'll coat around it and do that airbo coating, which — what's nice about that, that will go over your

fiberglass, because these are made just like boats. You're not going to drag your boat on cement, that's fiberglass and gel coated, so don't do it to these. And even with the coating, don't do it, because it is a sacrificial layer that's extremely difficult to come off, but it does over time. And that's why, if we do your coating, is 8 n hour job, and it comes with lifetime touch-ups. And even if you're not in Tampa Bay, we'll mail you the liquid and you can — we've done the 8 hour job, and you can just do the hour job of touch-ups. But anyways, just

in regards to this, it's time to bomb proof them. And what I like about it is the bottom coating: once this goes on, then when it comes off, I don't have to be a gel coat expert, or send it and spend hundreds of dollars with a fiberglass shop to reel coat it. All I have to do is, once I see it starts wearing down, I just recat over it, and I can always always always keep my live board just absolutely pristine at the bottom. And if you're like us, running skinny, playing with fire, it's your saving grace. If you hit an oyster bed or

or something, it takes off the airbo coating, or the keel guard just hits it and it's not taking off gel, going through fiberglass. So anyways, we're about get to get ready on ours, that way as the season picks up we're just ready to take care of you guys, cuz our boards are taken care of. So, all right, take it easy guys. Take it.