Let’s face it painting the bottom of a boat is about as fun as getting a root canal. Not only does this arduous job involve lots of bending, stretching, and contorting of your body, you have to deal with toxic, smelly, and hard-to-clean-up paint. Water-based paints are much easier to deal with than solvent-based ones. And the good news is that a number of these paints did very well in our tests, the results of which were published in the October issue. …