Why choose Brush 'n Go boat wash?

Brush ’n Go changes the way you keep your boat hull clean. Detergent-free brush washing is an easily justifiable environmental action: an easier, faster, and cheaper alternative to toxic paints. Water washing protects the environment and pays for itself through reduced fuel costs.

Boat washing lightens the load and reduces consumption

An experienced skipper knows when the boat’s glide is disturbed. Cruising speed drops, and more engine revolutions are needed to reach it. Fuel consumption increases.
A dirty hull has a surprisingly large impact on the boat’s hydrodynamics – and the same applies to a clean hull. It is common for our customers to report up to one-third less fuel consumption after a wash!
Besides driving characteristics and fuel costs, reduced consumption is an environmental action in itself. In addition to global warming, CO2 emissions directly affect the acidification of water bodies.

Toxic bottom paints burden the environment

A cleaner sea is the vision that gave birth to Brush ’n Go boat washing. Detergent-free brush washing was developed as an alternative to toxic bottom paints, whose impact extends beyond organisms attached to the boat hull to the entire underwater ecosystem.

The environmental burden of toxic paints is greater than commonly imagined. Copper, which is particularly harmful to aquatic life, accumulates in water bodies more from Finnish recreational boats than from the pulp and paper industry, metal production, municipal wastewater, and mining and quarrying combined.

The effectiveness of toxic paints partly relies on their dissolving in water. This also happens with microplastics used as fillers in the paints, which form another major environmental problem. For the same reason, silicone paints marketed as alternatives to toxic paints are not a solution. The best solution is a hard, toxin-free coating combined with mechanical boat washing.

Brush ’n Go boat washing is a convenient alternative

The world is moving toward toxin-free boating. The effectiveness of paints will decrease as the concentration of active substances is tightened. In the near future, painting boats under 7 meters with toxic paints will be banned. It is a good time to move into the future.

Washing the boat requires a change of mindset and about 15 minutes of your time. Compared to painting the hull, a quick wash is a fast and effortless procedure. Brush ’n Go means you sit onboard like in a car wash, with or without a reservation. We recommend washing 2–3 times a year, for example, before and after the holiday season and at the end of the boating season.