bottom paint

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which bottom paint is the least harmful tothe marine environmental. the pain is to be use don a sail boat with a glass surface

[JimD]

I remember a thread a few years ago about home recipies that included organic stuff like mixing in cayanne pepper, unless I dreamed the whole thing. There are some banned substances you can't get anymore even if you wanted. Copper is a widely used antifoul that has been in use for well over 100 years. What I'm really saying is I can't answer your question. Sorry.

[Paul Girouard]

Hey check out Mellissa's idea and Dan"s on Tug boat Jonah thread build and repair link . They had something like what your asking the pepper deal in the paint. PEG

[Bruce Hooke]

I believe the word on the Cayanne Pepper methodology was that it did not seem to do any good.

I wonder if the hard bottom paints might be better for the environment simply because the paint stays on the boat rather than slowly getting washed away, but that is pure speculation. The basic problem is, of course, that bottom paint works because it is poisoness to the critters that would like to attach to the bottom of a boat.

[Matt J.]

Just read an article about a new bottom paint being developed. It's supposed to use shark skin as a model - no barnacles on shark skin because of the physical structure of the skin; whereas whales and other marine critters do get growth. They're trying to develop a paint which will form similar physical structures on a boat's bottom.

As for today? I don't know. smile.gif