The Viking Boat Lifts have no problems with corrosion because they are all hot-dip galvanized to prevent this. All parts of the boat lifts are designed to get the optimum quality of galvanization and ensure maximum corrosion protection.
This means that all the sides, corners, inside, and outside of the different boat lift parts are exposed to the galvanizing.
The zinc surface of the galvanized steel parts are perfect for boat lifts that often live a tough life in whatever type of water they are in. Hot-dip galvanizing with zinc covers the steel as a barrier between the steel and the water.
Does damage to the zinc give problems?
If your boat lift gets hit by a hammer or something else that would cause the zinc to peel off – don’t worry it’s not an alarming problem. The galvanizing is still the best protection you can get.
Zinc has a unique charahteristic which means that when a galvanized coating is slightly damaged and steel is exposed to water or air, the surrounding zinc continues to protect the steel more or less like it did before.
Now we don’t recommend that you go out and damage your boat lift to test this.
Read more about hot-dip galvanization on Wikipedia.
Viking Boat Lifts have no problems with seaweed, mussels, algaes etc.
The zinc galvanized surface of the boat lifts also protects better than anything else against seaweed, mussels, or whatever grows where your boat is.
A lot of our customers get a Viking Boat Lift so they don’t have to clean the bottom of their boat regularly. When you get a boat lift everything that used to grow on your boat now grows on the boat lift instead.
This is one of the reasons for you to hoist your boat lift out of the water even when there is no boat on it. Another – and better – reason is to prevent damage to the ‘cradle’ from waves.