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Boat cleaner

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Two trigger sprayers out of 526 closures, for the product this whole archetype was written for.

What it is

Hull cleaner, deck wash, vinyl and canvas cleaner, teak cleaner, rust and stain remover. Aqueous, thin, sprayed, and often acidic or alkaline.

Which is exactly the archetype

home-spray: 350 to 1,000 mL, trigger sprayer, PET or HDPE, cold, thin, aqueous. For this leaf the archetype is right in every field.

And the shelf cannot serve it

Two trigger sprayers. Not a thin selection, a count of two, out of 526 closures. For the sprayed product in a sprayed-product archetype, that is the finding.

What is there instead

368 continuous thread closures, 26 spouted, 18 flip top. A cleaner can be sold as a concentrate in a plain bottle for the customer to dilute into their own sprayer, which is a real product and a different one.

A concentrate is arguably the better marine format

Less weight aboard, less volume in a locker, and the sprayer stays with the boat instead of being thrown away. The constraint pushes toward the honest answer.

But say which you are selling

A concentrate mislabeled as ready to use is a chemical burn or a ruined gelcoat. The dilution is the product and it belongs on the panel.

Chemical resistance is not optional

An acidic hull cleaner attacks the liner and sometimes the bottle. The archetype says chemical resistant and means it; the 71 PP containers are the more tolerant end.

And the discharge question is live for this leaf

What runs off a hull goes into the water. That is a permitting question that depends on the water body, and a cleaner that emulsifies oil may engage the second limb of the sheen clause.

Lockable, which we cannot answer

The archetype says "trigger sprayer, lockable". Nothing in our data records whether a sprayer locks, and with two sprayers on the shelf the question is academic until the range grows.

The honest recommendation

Sell the concentrate in HDPE with a good liner, tell the customer the dilution, and send them elsewhere for the sprayer. One lost line item, one kept relationship.

References

The archetype behind this shelf is home-spray: 350 to 1,000 mL, narrow mouth, trigger sprayer, PET and HDPE, cold fill, thin, aqueous, sprayed. Its stated reason is "cleaning spray. Trigger sprayer, lockable, chemical resistant." All three leaves sit on it, and the shelf carries two trigger sprayers out of 526 closures.
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 18 October 2026. The marine shelf is 880 rows: 354 containers and 526 closures. 50 mL to 3,785 mL with a median of 237; 101 containers over a pint, 45 over a quart, 13 over a gallon and none over five gallons. 166 HDPE, 117 PET, 71 PP, and no glass or metal at all. 163 jars, 159 bottles, 19 tubs and pails, 12 jugs, 1 tube. 136 white, 83 natural, 54 clear, 39 black, 20 amber. Closures: 368 continuous thread, 39 child resistant, 26 dome lids, 26 spouted, 18 flip top, 11 liners and sealing discs, 10 round tubs, 7 specialty, 7 buttress, 6 phenolic, 2 trigger sprayers.
40 CFR 110.3, discharge of oil in such quantities as "may be harmful" under section 311(b)(4) of the Clean Water Act. Such discharges are those that "(a) Violate applicable water quality standards" or "(b) Cause a film or sheen upon or discoloration of the surface of the water or adjoining shorelines or cause a sludge or emulsion to be deposited beneath the surface of the water or upon adjoining shorelines". law.cornell.edu
Written from 40 CFR 110.3 and 33 CFR 155.450, and from the catalog as it stood on 18 October 2026. The Vessel General Permit, the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act and in-water hull cleaning rules are named and not summarized; state and local rules on boat washing and marina discharge vary by water body. Whether a specific product may be used in the water is a question about that product and that water.