Boat Painting & Antifouling Advice

International Paints offer an excellent Boat Painting Guide giving you all the tips and advice you require, from preparing your boat for antifouling, to applying the paint right through to repair and care.  Also includes colour charts for International Paints.

Courtesy of Yachtpaint.com (Akzo Nobel)

Taking Care of your Lifejacket

Looking after your lifejacket properly is absolutely essential.  The RNLI offer some excellent tips on how to check your gas cylinder, checking for leaks and how best to store your lifejacket.  Find out more by clicking here.

Advice and Image courtesy of RNLI 

Baltic Lifejackets guide

 An incredibly useful step-by-step guide to looking after your Baltic Lifejacket, how they operate and which spare parts you may need. Read up on it by clicking here (allow time for page to load).

Disposing of Expired or Damaged Flares

Gael Force Marine does not operate a 'take back' scheme for out of date or damaged flares.  Gael Force Marine is not obliged or legally bound to accept out of date of date or damaged flares from customers.

For information on how to arrange disposal of out of date/damaged flares, please follow this link to the directgov website which offers advice and a range of contact telephone numbers for areas throughout the UK.

How to Splice

Advice and Step-by-Step guides are available on Marlow's website on how to splice their differing types of ropes.  Click here to find out more.

EPIRB vs PLB

Which one is right for you?  Make up your mind with this fact sheet from ACR Electronics.  Read about it here.

Caulking, Sealing, and Bonding...

Applying Sikaflex when caulking, sealing and bonding is simple in the right conditions, with the best tools to hand and when you're armed with the correct advice.  Get all the advice you need with this handy instruction guide.