Charlie,
I just finished this process about two weeks ago.
Each year because of the flaking I would sand the hull, getting rid of
some old buildup, but inevitably the newly applied antifouling paint
would flake off more of the old stuff and mess up the paint. I finally
had enough, had the yard soda blast, cost $2,000 to bring in the
contractor. The gel coat on my '73 35-1 is in poor shape, lots of
crazing and pitting. I did some filling with G-glex epoxy/410 filler on
the worst stuff, then 4 coats Interprotect 2000e and anitfouling. (The
yard quoted me $7,000 to put on one coat of primer and two coats of
antifouling, if the price had been somewhat reasonable I would have had
them do that too.)
Everyone who removed the paint by hand (with smaller boats than my 35)
said "don't do it by hand", and I'm sure they're right, just the filling
and painting was bad enough on my back.
Neil Gallagher
Weatherly 35-1
Glen Cove, NY
On 8/8/2018 9:32 AM, Charlie Nelson via CnC-List wrote:
I need to have several/many coats of bottom paint removed (its
starting to seriously flake off) and am considering soda blasting as
both faster and possibly cheaper than the 60 hours of labor that the
yard estimates it would take to sand it off.(~$5000!).
Opinions and experiences of the list are welcome before I proceed with
it (or stay with the sanding method).
Thanks,
Charlie Nelson
Water Phantom
1995 C&C 36 XL/kcb
[email protected]
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