Cathodic protection and coating are bought from different suppliers, designed by different engineers and inspected by different people. The failure that follows belongs to nobody, which is precisely why it keeps happening. By MarineCraft Journal · 14 October 2026 · 9 mins read 2systems designed as one, or neither works as intended … Read more
Film thickness is the one coating parameter everybody measures and almost nobody agrees on. The argument always arrives after the scaffolding is down and the money is spent, and it is nearly always about criteria that were never written into the specification. By MarineCraft Journal · 8 October 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
A facility gets one coating specification because that is easier to buy and easier to apply. The structure then fails wherever the exposure was worst, on a schedule nobody planned for, and the specification is blamed for a decision made at procurement. By MarineCraft Journal · 7 October 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
When a coating fails early, the paint gets the blame. Most of the time the cause was settled before the first coat went on, in a blast that met one of three requirements and was assumed to have met all three. By MarineCraft Journal · 5 October 2026 · 9 mins read … Read more
Both terms get used as though they meant the same thing, usually by people commissioning one and receiving the other. They sit on different standards, belong at different points in a project, and produce different documents. Getting the choice wrong wastes the study. By MarineCraft Journal · 2 October 2026 · 9 … Read more
Painted snap-back zones were meant to show the crew where not to stand. The problem is that the paint describes an estimate, on a deck where a parting line can reach almost anywhere, and standing outside the lines feels a great deal safer than it is. By MarineCraft Journal · 30 September 2026 … Read more
