Steve Zweigart wrote:

Just bought my first sailboat this year...a 1986 Mac25 which is moored
at Cave Run Lake in Kentucky..... ....What is the best type of paint
for a situation such as mine? I don't want to spend $$$ on an ablative
multi-season coating if it's not necessary, nor do I want to paint the
thing any more than is absolutely necessary. Suggestions?

It might be cheaper to buy an old 2nd hand trailer and store the boat out of
the water. Ablative anti-fouling paint is limited in time & works better for
a boat that is underway often. Hard finish antifouling paints are more
expensive. In any event, it would be best to sand off all old bottom pain,
get down to the original gel coat. It would be great idea to refinish that
iron swing keel & replace the cable, too. Normal preventative maintenance.

An option you have is to buy a can of anti-slime additive such as is mixed
with bottom paint, and mix it into cheaper house paint, and slap it on
there. You don't have to worry about barnacles.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:

Steve Zweigart wrote:

Just bought my first sailboat this year...a 1986 Mac25 which is moored
at Cave Run Lake in Kentucky..... ....What is the best type of paint
for a situation such as mine

An option you have is to buy a can of anti-slime additive such as is mixed
with bottom paint, and mix it into cheaper house paint, and slap it on
there.


You *have* turned evil since you got that powerboat!


Seahag

"Seahag" wrote in message

| You *have* turned evil since you got that powerboat!

Doug has been taken by the Dark Side...... ;-)

CM

"Seahag" wrote in message

| You *have* turned evil since you got that powerboat!


"Capt. Mooron" wrote:
Doug has been taken by the Dark Side...... ;-)

So, do you feel a chill in the air when I come into the newsgroup?

DSK

"DSK" wrote in message
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| "Seahag" wrote in message
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| | You *have* turned evil since you got that powerboat!
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| "Capt. Mooron" wrote:
| Doug has been taken by the Dark Side...... ;-)
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| So, do you feel a chill in the air when I come into the newsgroup?

I've always attributed that to the waft from my high test rum but now that
you mention it....

Have you learned to balance a beer on your gut so you can steer and gun the
throttle at the same time?

CM

"Capt. Mooron" wrote:

Have you learned to balance a beer on your gut so you can steer and gun the
throttle at the same time?


An old trucker was reminiscing to pass the miles. "In the old days it
took a man to drive a truck cuz of the "crash box" - one foot on the
clutch the other on the throttle, one hand on the gear lever, the other
on the "brownie", ahh those were the days!" A lady driver promptly asked
"Oh Ya! then what 'nhell did you steer with?" "Like I said," sez he,
"took a man to drive a truck ..." Maybe the same applies here (c:

More like the smell of a fart than any chill!

S.Simon


"DSK" wrote in message ...
So, do you feel a chill in the air when I come into the newsgroup?

DSK

So, do you feel a chill in the air when I come into the newsgroup?

DSK

No, but the heavy breathing could be a sugn you need an inhaler....

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