For the past 4 sailing seasons, I have used Micron 66....the first 3
seasons/haulouts, the bottom was void of any marine growth, and no
slime.....didn't even need a pressure wash.
This haulout (season #4), the bottom was infested with barnacles....not
a few scattered around, a significant number all over....I wet sanded,
which removed the most of the little critters (and a lot of the 66) but
there are still traces of the 'little critters'. Not sure if I will
sand them out completely or simply paint over them next Spring.
Anybody have this problem and how did you finally deal with it?
On a further antifouling paint story, years back in the Binnacle, a
fellow sailor/racer approached the shelves of antifouling paints....he
stops and pulls out a brass 'fishing scale'......I watch......he puts a
gallon of a brand on the scale, then another, and another, etc. He
chooses a gallon. Naturally, I had to go over and ask what he was
doing "weighing the amount of copper in each paint Bob.....this gallon
weighs the most and that's the one I am putting on 'Apocalypse', his 40
ft, home made in his back yard, race machine.
Maybe that's how I will choose my next gallon of antifouling paint!
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
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