I used Micron in Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and the Sounds of eastern North Carolina. Water here is brackish to salt, depending on proximity to the ocean. Current water temp is about the same as our air temp - somewhere in the 70s. Up to the low 80s in mid to late summer.
I switched to Petit ACP60 (now called Ultra, I think) when I bought Imzadi about 12 years ago, based on local recommendations. There seems to be a lot of Trinidad, Trinidad Pro, and Ultra used around here by us non-racers. I usually get 4 years (we don't haul in the winter, we sail in cooler weather) out of a bottom job. Rick -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Rohwer via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 10:29 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Rick Rohwer <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Stus-List Anti-fouling paint 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 <[email protected]> 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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > robert via CnC-List > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 3:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: robert <[email protected]> > 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: > [email protected] > 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: > [email protected] > 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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
