Rick:
I bought 3 gallons of Micron 66 4 years ago....should be the same
formula.....each Spring, I put a light coat of the 66 paint on the
bottom....the 3 gallons has now been consumed. And there is Micron CSC
under the 66. I saw a boat hauled yesterday with CSC paint that lies
about 200 feet from my boat in the mooring field and not one barnacle
that I could see on the bottom......a few on prop and shaft but not many.
Next Spring will see a 'fresh coat'......just not sure what paint it
will be.
I think Rich Knowles, out of Nanimo, B.C. , is still having 'prayer
meetings' directing the marine growth to my boat and not all the others.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2015-10-22 4:40 PM, Rick Taillieu via CnC-List wrote:
Rob,
It isn't really clear, did you put a fresh coat on each spring or is this
four years use on the same application?
If it's the former, they may have changed the formula. If it's the latter
you probably just used up all the copper in the paint and it's time for a
fresh coat.
Rick Taillieu
Nemesis
'75 C&C 25 #371
Shearwater Yacht Club
Halifax, NS.
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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.
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