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Default Hmmmm, tin based paint

In article , payer33859
@mypacks.net says...

On 6/14/11 4:44 PM, Frogwatch wrote:
Got e-mail from the Bahamas yard asking if I want my boat bottom
painted so I asked em what kind of paint they use. They actually
still use the tributyl tin based paint that was so effective but was
outlawed in the USA. In the USA I think it can still be used on
Aluminum hulls but not on fiberglass or wood hulls. I never used it
but people say they got about 4 years of life out of it.



Surely, there must be something cheaper...


Yeah, your lies for one.