Our Approach

Prevent it. Don't scrape it.

Traditional cleaning waits for barnacles to set, then attacks the hull with a scraper. We get there first — the bottom stays healthy, the paint keeps working, and you never feel the performance drop.

The Usual Way — Reactive

Scrape once it's dirty

How — hand-scraping by a diver, or a haul-out at the yard
When — after hard growth has already set (barnacles)
Effect — up to 30% of performance lost between cleanings
Outcome — antifouling redone early, more fuel, more CO₂

The HullDrone Way — Proactive

Never let it get dirty

How — robotic cleaning to a written, filmed protocol
When — every 4–6 weeks, on the calendar
Effect — the paint's active layer stays untouched
Outcome — steady performance all season, less fuel, less CO₂

Our Robots

The right robot for every hull.

Our underwater robots are engineered and built in Italy for one job only: hull care.

Class I

Vessels up to 80 ft (24 m)

Sportfish, cruisers, sailing yachts

Cleaning speed	6 m² per minute
Brushes	1 motor, 2 counter-rotating discs
Camera	1080p HD, monitored live
Debris capture	On-board filter bag
Umbilical	65 ft (20 m), Kevlar-reinforced

Class II

Yachts 80–200 ft (24–60 m)

Superyachts, charter & commercial

Cleaning speed	12 m² per minute
Brushes	2 motors, 4 counter-rotating discs
Camera	1080p HD, monitored live
Debris capture	5 L on-board filtration
Umbilical	130 ft (40 m), Kevlar-reinforced

Three brush sets — soft nylon, medium nylon, and stainless steel for props and shafts — are matched to your antifouling's type and age. And on the Signature and Prestige memberships, a professional diver completes the robot's work: propellers, shafts, anodes, seacocks.

The Environment

Gentle on the paint. Clean for the bay.

Our robots cannot damage the coating — that's a limit of physics, not a marketing promise. And what they lift comes off by suction, not into the water.

200 RPM and 9 lb (4 kg) of contact — no more

A shipyard sander runs at 10,000 oscillations per minute; the robot barely grazes the hull, with under 0.5% of that abrasive power. It is physically incapable of tearing off healthy paint — it only lifts the biofilm the hull would shed underway anyway.
The biocide stays in the paint

In the water, antifouling forms a spent, already-inactive surface layer. That layer — and only that layer — is what we clean. The active biocide stays sealed inside the paint, not in Biscayne Bay.
Suction runs while the brushes turn

The robot brushes and vacuums at the same time: debris goes straight into a 180-micron filter bag, with a proven 80–90% capture rate. No cloud in the water, no film on the neighbor's dock.
Rinsed and dried between every boat

That protocol removes any risk of carrying organisms from one hull to another — or from one marina to the next.

Brushing and suction together — everything stays on board

Your Budget

A clean hull pays for itself.

A fouled hull burns up to 20–30% more fuel. Maintained continuously, your antifouling lasts longer, haul-outs come further apart, and every hour underway runs at full efficiency.

Reactive maintenance HullDrone program

Illustrative scenario: a 50 ft (15 m) yacht. Making the antifouling last two seasons instead of one removes an entire haul-out-and-repaint cycle from the budget. Fuel savings — up to 20% — come on top.

Certified Paint-Safe
Cleaning

Independently certified. Documented after every service.

The nylon brushes we run are covered by a certificate of conformity from ANCCP (EU Notified Body No. 0302): cleaning does not pull biocides out of the antifouling. And on the Signature and Prestige memberships, every service closes with an HD video report and a written log — time, area treated, observations — sent to you, your captain, or your yacht manager, wherever you are.

Miami · Coconut Grove · Miami Beach · Fort Lauderdale · Palm Beach

Put your hull on the calendar.

Concierge-level care for your boat's bottom: from a one-time assessment to a fully managed annual program.

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WE CLEAN. YOU CRUISE.