[C320-list] bottom paint

[wfl...@aim.com]

Has anyone used Jamestown Select Ablative Bottom Paint? If so how did it work?

[dprudden]

I used it last year for 2 months (on the old boat before buying the current 320). When I hauled the boat, I didn't even have to power wash the bottom-no slime and no barnacles. The only problem I had was when the boat slid onto the trailer bunk boards and keel guides ( Catalina 22) the paint easily scraped off. The paint is extremely soft when it has been sitting in water.

I have to admit I was totally amazed at how clean the bottom was. I even sent Jamestown a picture of how clean it was.

David Prudden
#787

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[Karl Mielenhausen]

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

[sail...@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

[Dian...@aol.com]

Practical SAilor also showed the EPaint from MA to be the best in the FL
waters near where we live (was tested in Sarasota Bay) . I ordered it/
had boat prof. sanded down to the fiberglass in October 2012 ; primed and
painted per EPaint instructions.

After just 6 months in our BRACKISH waters here; she was full of growth
. VERY dissappointing! I called the owner of EPaint & told him our
dilemma. he said we do not have enough water FLOW here (we live behind a lock -
so it is not tidal waters) AND their paint needs SUNLIGHT. So, the port
side, which sits against our dock - looked even worse than the starboard
side!

I currently hire a diver once/ month to keep the WHITE bottom clean.....
most dissapointing....

Any other suggestions for when we haul the boat next year & REDO the
bottom??

ps. Epaint is a HARD paint - not eblative.

Captain Diane Fowler, GRI, CRS, e-PRO
Sellstate Priority Realty

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