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From: mel@pegasus.UUCP (Mel Haas)
Newsgroups: net.rec.boat
Subject: Re: start talking - Bottom paint
Message-ID: <2175@pegasus.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 12:42:21 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 16 12:42:21 1985
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I had a 26' aux. parked in the Beverly River for a few years.  I used the
cheapest red lead bottom paint with copper salts in it, from a local
hole-in-the-wall paint factory that sold through the local boat dealers.  I
never had a bit of moss or grunge develop except on the places I missed with
the roller, and up near the waterline.  Other boats, even ones in cleaner
mooring places, had horrible problems.  Worst of all were the hard "racing
finish" bottom paints - shiny and hard to put on, fancy colors, too, until the
white and green nastys started to grow.  The red soft paint was good in that
it mostly wore and washed off each season, so didn't build up.  The local lore
was: that the more copper, the better - and the softer, the better - and the
cheaper, the better.  One disadvantage was that you were supposed to launch
within a few days of painting, and not haul out without re-painting - and,
you were not supposed to get any of the stuff on your person, or breathe the
fumes.
             May your bottoms stay ever clean.