In 1988, Nigel Farrow, inventor of The Farrow System®, set out on a journey of discovery.

Farrow, the son of an English dairy farmer, had learned to sail as a boy. As an adult, he had the opportunity to crew aboard a sailing ship owned by his employer, Lloyd's Underwriting. While involved in the winter maintenance of the vessel, Farrow decided there must be a better way to clean anti-fouling coatings from boat hulls. He began a trial and error process to find the answer.

Over the next ten years, Farrow's experiments hit many dead ends. Scraping took too much time and labor, and chemical stripping was slow, dangerous, and created disposal problems. Media blasting looked promising, but produced clouds of contaminated dust and damaged most surfaces. Then, in the late 1990's, Farrow tried adding heat to his process.

Suddenly, everything started to work. Farrow had already tried 38 different blast medias, but discovered that a unique volcanic crystal media combined with heat cleaned like magic. Working with a scientist at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, Farrow proved that adding heat added energy and created free flow in his system. They also proved that heat enhanced his Farrow Green Clean® media's remarkable low pressure cleaning characteristics. Farrow had discovered the keys to fast, safe, and economical cleaning. He patented his process worldwide in 1998, and The Farrow System® was born!