If it's a normal ablative paint, it should still be as effective upon
splashing as the day it was applied; think of a bar of soap. And it's
not an irreversible situation, why not splash and see how it goes? If
the paint's ineffective, you can haul and take care of it. You'll be
hauling every few years anyway, so it's a case of hauling sooner than
expected the first time, if the paint's somehow become no good.

Skip Gundlach wrote:
As many of you know, we're close to splashing our 2-year refit. It was
newly ablative bottom painted when we bought it.

A local asserts that the bottom paint is dead, and it will have to be
redone.

How say you who have experienced this? Not hard, ablative, out of the
water for a couple of years essentially immediately after application?

If it has to be redone, do I have to take off the old paint as well?
Or, with a scuff-up, will the bottom adhere, and (perhaps?) re-activate
the old stuff?

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