{"id":523,"date":"2012-08-13T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2015-01-31T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T20:09:14","slug":"eco-clad-bottom-paint-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/bottom-paint\/bottom-paint-review\/eco-clad-bottom-paint-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Clad Bottom Paint Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eco-Clad_color_logo1-e1422734916397.gif\" alt=\"eco clad\" width=\"100\" height=\"26\" \/>After further review on the performance of Eco-Clad as a bottom paint, we are\u00a0NOT offering this product to our customer base. Eco Clad is engineered to support a natural beneficial biofilm (slime) on the coated area. However, we have heard several complaints about the products&#8217; poor performance when it comes to keeping growth off the boat. The company has done a great job of marketing Eco Clad\u00a0everywhere, and claims better fuel economy and faster speeds.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This might be true, but performs only for a few months at best. After that you will see substantial marine growth and even worse fuel ecomony and speed along with the added costs of a new bottom job.<\/p>\n<p>Our opinion and recommendation is to stay away from\u00a0Eco-Clad unless you plan on keeping your boat in fresh water. Your are much better off using a traditional high quality <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/boat-bottom-paint-c-13523.html\">bottom paint<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?wp=6.9.7\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After further review on the performance of Eco-Clad as a bottom paint, we are\u00a0NOT offering this product to our customer base. Eco Clad is engineered to support a natural beneficial biofilm (slime) on the coated area. However, we have heard several complaints about the products&#8217; poor performance when it comes to keeping growth off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bottom-paint-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottompaintstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}