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Capt. JG

"Dave Doe" wrote in message
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"Ronald Raygun" wrote in message
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Armond Perretta wrote:

Ronald Raygun wrote:
Armond Perretta wrote:

Indeed. Good idea to try saving a few bucks. But your credibility
suffered when you claimed to "save half" by using 25% less. I didn't
judge you by your name, but by what you wrote ...

"Bottom Paint Half Price" is a variation on a typical advert slogan in
the
US. It is not nor was it ever intended to be used as an arithmetic
formula. Your taking this title literally implies either that
hyperbole
is
unknown in the British Isles, which is unlikely, or that your own
irony
antennae could stand a tune-up.

Well, if you add "(Serious Question)" to something which otherwise just
might pass for irony, it sends the signal that it was meant to be
serious
and not ironic. If you then reinforce the "half price" quantification
in
the text itself, what else is one to think than that you meant it
literally?
I refer you to your original posting from April in which you wrote:

This means the paint was thinned about 25 to
27 percent, which is well in excess of the manufacturer
recommendations. In fact just about any source I can find would
disagree with my approach and advise that I will end up with less
than adequate protection. The only advantage to me is, of course,
cutting my paint cost by half.

See what I mean? "... cutting my paint cost by half.". That didn't
look ironic, it looked serious. And when you subsequently flatly
denied having made any quantification at all, I just couldn't let
you get away with it. :-)

While this has been a pleasant if somewhat overdone discourse, I am
not
sure that either of us would consider the meandering nature of this
part
of the thread as particularly useful or enlightening.

Well, I'm glad you found it pleasant even though I may have been overly
pedantic, and I apologise if that irritated you.

That aside, enjoy your sailing, old sport.

Thanks, I intend to. As I am not hauling out this year, I hope to get
some winter sailing in. I just hope my bottom paint lasts the full 18
months! :-)

A full 18 mos? I guess that's normal, but I've gotten close to three
years
on mine. I used Micron 99. I'm hoping to see about that long a time on
the
new coat.

It wasn't super cheap, but it seems pretty cost-effective.

Surely folks, it depends on where ya boat is, to a large degree. In
places like Havelock, New Zealand - in the heart of the Malborough
Sounds - the algae and whatever else is so prevalent that no boat goes
more than a year without requiring new antifouling.

--
Duncan.

It also depends on how much you sail... more is better, at least with the
ablative paint.

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"j" ganz @@
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