Wow, 3 years for bottom paint is pretty darn good! Are you in really cold or brackish environment? I have a neighbor in my marina that is going to be in the Smithsonian if he can keep the garden growing under his vintage Columbia sloop! He did get a nice 25 hp Merc installed on the back since I saw it last. He somehow turned it around in the slip! I thought it was attached to the bottom! Rick Paige's 37+
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 22, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Rick Brass via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > Three years is about the experience I had when I still used Micron for > bottom paint. > > Tip for you paint job in the spring: As a first coat paint the forward third > of the hull, the forward half of the keel, and the forward half of the > rudder with a contrasting color of paint. I use blue as a first coat under > my red bottom paint. The contrasting paint is your "signal coat". Then paint > the other costs with your preferred color. When the paint is sluffed off to > the point that the signal coat is visible, it is time to repaint the bottom. > > I'm surprised that the base of the barnacles didn't get removed by pressure > washing. But then you paint had exceeded its life and the copper was > probably completely leached out of the paint. > > Try taking a 1 1/2 or 2' wide wood chisel to the base disc of the barnacles. > Lay the edge of the chisel along the edge of the disc with the chisel almost > flush with the paint surface, and give the chisel a thump with your hand. > The disc should just pop off. That's has worked for me since I was shown the > trick by a yard mechanic several years ago. > > Rick Brass > Washington, NC > > -----Original Message----- > From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of robert > via CnC-List > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 3:11 PM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Cc: robert <robertabb...@eastlink.ca> > Subject: Stus-List Anti-fouling paint > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom > of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom > of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
