[C320-list] bottom paint

[sailorlew at aol.com]

This is a paint that is inexpensive, & Practical Sailor recommends. I have used it for several seasons & have been very happy with the results. I touch up where needed for 2 seasons & repaint the entire hull for the 3rd. If I remember correctly the price I paid last season was $69 a gallon on sale.
Lew





 http://www.bluewatermarinepaint.com/coppershield45.html



-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Mielenhausen <kmielen at suddenlink.net>
To: C320-List <C320-List at catalina320.com>
Sent: Sun, Dec 16, 2012 9:50 am
Subject: Re: [C320-list] bottom paint


Good question. Certainly an excellent price @ $90/gal, even when you
factor in shipping ($17/gal for me to NC).

>From what I could tell from the MSDS, this is a low Cu formulation
made by Flexabar Corp. Their address is the same as Flexdel which
makes the Aquaguard line of water-based, ablative bottom paints. They
have the same color offerings (plus a few) including the "shark white"
in the Aquaguard line. This product uses Zinc oxide as a "bio-booster"
and has a Cu loading of 26%

Here is what Practical Sailor magazine reported in March 2011:
""FLEXDEL
Flexdel’s aluminum friendly, low-copper paints have excelled in
previous tests, and their prices are very competitive. This time
around, however, the fertile waters of Sarasota Bay proved too much to
handle. After holding growth at bay for 12 months, Flexdel’s
water-based Aquagard, a similar product to Pettit’s Hydrocoat, had
succumbed to barnacles. Flexdel’s other aluminum-friendly, water-based
product, Alumi-Koat II, had given up the ghost at the 12-month mark.
It was one of the few paints in this test to fail at 12 months. It
should be noted that Aquagard performed well in a head-to-head field
test against Pettit’s Hydrocoat (March 2009) in Chesapeake Bay,
although barnacles set in on both paints at about the 15-month mark.""

Me again: You might find additional info on the internet by searching
on Aquaquard.  You might characterize it as an inexpensive, single
season alternative to the higher-priced ablatives. If you have to haul
for the winter anyway and repaint in the spring each year, Select
Ablative might be acceptable. Plus, dealing with a water-based coating
is so much easier come clean-up time!!

Karl

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 7:03 AM,  <wflowe3 at aim.com> wrote:
> Has anyone used Jamestown Select Ablative Bottom Paint? If so how did it work?