Charlie:
There is a another way to have the bottom paint removed.....it is called
'dry ice blasting'.....it is much cleaner and safer than soda blasting.
When I bought my boat in 2006, I had the bottom 'dry ice
blasted'......took the contractor approx. 4 hours.....removed 22 years
of Interlux and VC 17 right down to the 'white gel coat' without any
damage, pitting etc to the gel coat. Keel and rudder were cleaned as well.
The old antifouling paint just fell to the asphalt like 'course
pepper'.....I used a shop vac to clean it up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry-ice_blasting
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dry+ice+blasting&view=detail&mid=C0396F2E2CC670FEFE5BC0396F2E2CC670FEFE5B&FORM=VIRE
It is worth investigating.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32-84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2018-08-08 10:32 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
cenel...@aol.com
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