10/15/2026
Salt water, cold and heavy loads: the lubricant that stays put
Most marine lubricants don't fail from wear. They fail because salt water washes them away.
The coastal vessel Vlieland has sailed the length of Europe's coast for more than 20 years, from the warm Mediterranean to the ice-class waters of the Baltic and Bothnian Gulf. Its deck equipment takes a permanent battering from salt water, rain and wind.
Skipper and owner Roelof Rientjes switched the ship's anchor windlasses, steel cables, spindles, deck crane and door seals to Interflon lubricants built on MicPol® technology: Grease LS2, L**e EP, Grease aerosol and L**e TF.
The difference is adhesion. Instead of washing off, the lubricant stays bonded to the metal, roughly eight times longer than before. Re-greasing intervals that used to sit at two to three weeks have stretched out significantly, and sister ship Terschelling has since made the same switch.
"It just has to be good," says Rientjes.
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