What is left probaby has very little anti-fouling properties. If you live in an area with a lot of growth you will have to dive more frequently.
Lots of people are in the soda blasting business. That price sounds high unless it includes the barrier coating itself. Recommended application is 4 coats. Joel 35/3 Annapolis On Monday, September 1, 2014, RPH via CnC-List <[email protected]> wrote: > My 30-2 has many layers of Micron CSC ablative paint. The most recent > layers of paint are flaking. I am told this is due to the fact that > ablative paint absorbs water like a sponge and then sheds that water when > the boat is hauled. Eventually, there is enough swelling and shrinking in > the layers of old paint to prevent proper adhesion. > > Anyway, I had been planning to have the yard strip off all the old paint, > apply a barrier coat, and then start fresh with a couple of coats of > bottom paint. The cost would be about $120 per foot. > > However, this is just one of several projects and I'm trying to > prioritize. I have been wondering.... Do I really need a bottom job, or > can I just continue to let the bottom paint ablate, at least for the time > being? Sure, I don't have a race bottom, but I can live with that. > > I will eventually get a bottom job, but why shouldn't I just "use" the > copious bottom paint that I already have? Am I missing something? > -- Joel 301 541 8551
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