No. It's me. I hired a voodoo priestess from the French Quarter in New Orleans to send you Cakun barnacles. They have a chip on their shoulders from having been kicked out of Acadiana years ago.
Dennis C. Touché 35-1 #83 Mandeville Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 22, 2015, at 2:53 PM, robert via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > 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. >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of robert >> via CnC-List >> Sent: October-22-15 16:11 >> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com >> Cc: robert >> 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 >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2015.0.6173 / Virus Database: 4450/10870 - Release Date: 10/22/15 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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
