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For the last 10 years I have been using Trinidad Red paint with a 4oz. jar of cayanne/gallon of paint. Boat is in Warm Florida waters and stays very clean. I repaint about every 2 years. The pepper adds a bit of texture though. I am not sure if you could get a break on your PHRF rating!
Mike Raehl wrote: Has anyone heard of adding hot pepper sauce to bottom paint to improve its effectiveness and keep costs down?
Warm day yesterday so I stopped by the marina to check on my Ty Weekender and got into a discussion with a marine woodworker who operates his business there. I asked if he knew what type of bottom paint works well here on the Hudson River. (Next season will be my first with a full size sailboat.) His suggestion was to buy cheap, say $60 / gallon, add two cups of hot pepper sauce and that would be good enough since keel boats are too slow to take advantage of the ablative paints.
Is the carpenter pulling my leg? What is a good bottom paint for the Hudson River? Brakish water, annual storage on the hard, hull currrently has multiple layers of black paint that is fadded with minor flaking. Cocoa boot strip needs to be repainted.
Tim Akers wrote: For the last 10 years I have been using Trinidad Red paint with a 4oz. jar of cayanne/gallon of paint. Boat is in Warm Florida waters and stays very clean. I repaint about every 2 years. The pepper adds a bit of texture though. I am not sure if you could get a break on your PHRF rating!
Tim,
I have it on good authority that cayanne doesn't work in the waters just off New Orleans. I hear that the barnacles and boat hugging slime in that area grew up on cayanne and just love it!
Warren Kaplan
Sine Qua Non...with the bland bottom paint
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