[PUP] Bottom Paint

[Truelove39 at aol.com]

Les-
 
See if you can get Sea Hawk Islands 44+ It works and most of the sailboat  
crowd uses it here in the Eastern Carib. You can get it in most of the Eastern  
Caribbean islands. Nothing beats TBT and without it you will be scraping 
often.  If you cruise over 10 knots or so you may have to use a hard paint. Sitting 
for  a month or two shouldn't accumulate anything other than a harmless scum 
which  will disappear once you get underway again.
 
We, too used Petitt Trinidad in the Southeast US but it does not work  here. 
 
How far East in the Caribbean are you coming? 
 
Regards,
 
John
"Seahorse"
 
 

Hello Warm Water Cruisers,
I am in Costa Rica and will  be entering the canal zone in a couple 
of weeks.  Meanwhile my bottom  paint applied in Newport Calif in Oct/07 
is doing miserably.  I will  probably get the bottom in Panama or 
Cartegena before I leave the  area.  I had convinced myself that a hard 
bottom paint was the way to  go since I'm having to clean the bottom 
every month.  With the ablative  I just see mucho dollars going up in a 
cloud.  I guess the argument  could be that if the ablative had enough 
copper/tin additives the scrubbing  wouldn't need to take place.  Well we 
aren't on the move all the time  so the self polishing lags a bit when we 
are "smelling the roses" for a  month or two at a time.
Curious as to what is the common  practice where high content 
biocides are available?  Hard or  soft?  I was told by Shelter Bay Marina 
that they have a very hard  ablative with all the additives. Is this a 
good compromise.
The next potential haul out will be in a year, probably  stateside.

Thanks,
Les Dobbe
"Voyager"
Cocos, Costa  Rica






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