That's what happens when you pay some scurvy lot to rub your bottom. Love
your site.
"katysails" wrote in message
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On both O'Day's and on Chanteuse we've always used VC 17 every other year
for bottom paint and have never had much af a problem with build up, even
when moored last year, which really surprised me. A lot of boats on the
moorings had garden's growing around their waterlines where we didn't (but
then, we sailed and a lot of them just sat there). Now that we're fairly
certain we'll be moving this summer to the Gulf Coast of Florida, we have to
change our regimen to accomodate salt water. At present, we have two coats
of VC 17 over the new bottom. We asked at Torresen's and they recommended
using Interlux Micron anti-fouling paint but that we would have to sand off
the VC17 (quite lethal stuff) They quoted 2600.00 plus the cost of the
paint to do it. When we go down in April, we're going to get quotes from
yards threr, too. Just how nasty would sanding off 2 coats of VC17 be? Is
Interlux Micron as thin as VC 17 or is it a thicker paint? How many coats
of Interlux can you put on before having to resand? We'll probably be
usiing the boat for live aboard the first year we're there, so it will be
sitting in a marina rather than on a mooring...seems most of the marinas are
on the river with flowing water rather than still. Will this make a
difference in the growth factor?

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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
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