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Bottom Paints
Has anyone experience with anti fouling paints for cruising sailboats
that are in the water 100% of the time in tropical waters. Like most cruisers we sail some of the time but the boat sits there a lot. Before the demise of TBT paints I used Jotun HB-66 and got 3 years plus out of a paint job. Since there is no more TBT I have talked to everyone I meet that has painted their boats recently and I get a uniform "it ain't no good" response to everyone, no matter what paint they used. Cheap stuff or the top of the line International paints the answer seems to be the same. As I have two boats to paint in the next few months if anyone has any positive experience with legal anti fouling paints I would be really glad to hear about them. I can still get old fashion copper bottom paint here in Thailand and unless someone tells me about something that really works I think I'm going to go with the old fashioned stuff. It worked pretty good 40 years ago and it should work pretty good today, which is better then the reports I've been getting on the new expensive stuff. To quote an old Aussie I know, "if you gotta scrub it every month you might as well use barn paint". Bruce-in-Bangkok (Note:remove underscores from address for reply) |
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