On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:17:53 -0400, jeff wrote:

wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:16:59 -0400, jeff wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:53:12 -0400, jeff wrote:

So my question is, was last fall particularly bad for growth in New
England, especially Boston Harbor?
I think you should go back to Micron Extra! No matter what, I never
have even a single barnacle attached. All I get is slime and fuzz,
which wipes off pretty easily.

Well perhaps, but the stuff I had on (old version CPP formulated then by
Petit but since changed I believe) worked pretty good for almost 2
seasons, at half the price. There was no speed reduction during my last
trip of the summer; it was only going to the haulout in mid October that
the problem was apparent. And the worst of the fouling was on parts
where I can't use copper paint anyways, the Saildrives. In any case,
I've got two gallons of Blue Water Copper Shield 45 ready to go on this
Spring.
Micron Extra gets a lot of recommendations and there are good reports
about Trinidad SR also.
I used Micron and Micron Extra for about 6 years, but when the price
went up over $200 (now $240)

I'll be buying a gallon of Micron Extra this morning for $188. That's
a sale price, but the regular price at the same place is $209, not
$240.

Since I had already decided against Micron Extra I didn't go hunting for
the best price. I quoted the West Marine list, but I assumed that with
the Spring sales it would be under $200. I'm glad you got a reasonable
price.

BTW, the Blue Seas was on sale last week so I paid about $160 for two
gallons, no tax or shipping. Part of the reason I questioned Micron was
that they kept telling me it was "the price of copper" that caused the
price to run up over $200, but it was easy to find paints with more
copper that are half the price.

I find it interesting that the production costs of the paint you are
using and Micron are probably similar regardless of differences in
material cost, yet Interlux doesn't seem to feel a need to compete on
price (which they could) to retain market share. Hmmmm.