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Default Hmmmm, tin based paint
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On 14/06/2011 2:44 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.

Why would they outlaw it?

Because it worked.


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