Hi Edd- I find your comments on Vivid interesting as my experience is different. I love the color, but I am going to switch away from it next year after 5-6 years with it. I can only clean it with a microfiber cloth and even then you can see loads of paint in the water (mine is white). It is the softest paint I have ever put on the bottom. It seems hard when first painted and you can sort of burnish it, but in the water it is really soft. I have had to repaint major areas every season and am getting tired of it. It works well as anti-fouling, but my experience (and others I have read online) is that it is not a hard paint as advertised. For me it is a soft ablative. Dave
S/V Aries 1990 C&C 34+ New London, CT > On Sep 8, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Edd Schillay via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > Ray, > > I’ve been using Petit Vivid for years — It’s a great multi-season paint and > your bottom cleaner will love you for the brighter color choice. It was also > ranked very high by Practical Sailing. > > I’m not sure what kind of work you’ll need to do, if any, to apply it to a > VC-17 bottom. Talk to the Petit guys about that. > > All the best, > > Edd > > > Edd M. Schillay > Captain of the Starship Enterprise > C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B > Venice Yacht Club | Venice Island, FL > > Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log <http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/> > > > > > > > >
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