RE: Bottom Paint
Eric Johnson (ej@tx3.com)
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:40:13 -0800
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> IMHO:
>
> After a week in water wax is completely gone and you will need to scrape
> bottom every other day to keep barnacles at bay. That includes
> the keel trunk.
> Overton's sells a slick wax for bottom that might help if you do
> not wish to
> paint bottom. Regular wax is useless. I've found that 100% pure
> carnauba wax
> works better than all the other concoctions except that stuff
> from Overton's.
>
> In Florida water you will grow lil barnacles in one week, in two weeks she
> will have fair sized barnacles, in three weeks she will have a
> full beard and
> edible oysters...
>
> The most you can sit in water without bottom paint is one
> weekend... Fri to
> Sun...
>
> If you trailer to Florida inspect & repack your trailer wheel bearings.
>
> If you must paint bottom and want antifouling paint to remain effective,
> after storage on trailer, launching or hauling out, you have to use a mud
> paint. Such as Petit ACP50 or Interlux Micron CSC extra. Epoxy
> Paints such as
> Trinidad and others lose effectivenes if out of the water for
> more than a few
> days. The moment you store your boat on a trailer for more than
> a week those
> paints lose effectiveness and become useless.
>
Wow! is the fouling THAT bad down there? Up here in the cold northwest I
wouldn't hesitate to leave my P19 in for weeks without paint. I had no idea
the fouling sets in so fast. I kept my boat for about 8 months in freshwater
with worn out bottom paint (the kind that loses effectiveness when hauled,
and it was hauled for months) and all I had to do was occasionally scrub the
undersides.