Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
We plan on keeping the boat in fresh water, but making trips into salt for up to a few weeks.
What should we be using for zincs and bottom paint?
What should we be using for zincs and bottom paint?
Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
AZHC-2 or AZHC-5 aluminum anodes. Are they going to paint it? Good system: abrasive blast, Pettit Alumaprotect epoxy (2 coats), Interlux 2000e barrier coat epoxy (2-3 coats), Pettit Vivid bottom paint (4 thin coats)
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Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
They have offered to (at a price)....
I don't know what paint/system they are using....
PM me a quote.. 28'x9.5' Looks exactly like the pictures on the new boat in Port Angles... Only issue is figuring out how to get it to you..
I don't know what paint/system they are using....
PM me a quote.. 28'x9.5' Looks exactly like the pictures on the new boat in Port Angles... Only issue is figuring out how to get it to you..
Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
Are those different compound zincs or just different sizes?
I haven't found much info about them..
I haven't found much info about them..
Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
Maybe a stupid question but why would you bottom paint? I use my Pacific in salt water up to two weeks at a time with no bottom paint, no problems...
Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
Because it will stay in the water year round except for service. Not even buying a trailer (yet)...
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City folk without a place to store boat and trailer. also a little more secure in the marina than at home with all of the crackheads we got around heaaaa.capesteve wrote:Maybe a stupid question but why would you bottom paint? I use my Pacific in salt water up to two weeks at a time with no bottom paint, no problems...
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Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
goatram wrote:City folk without a place to store boat and trailer. also a little more secure in the marina than at home with all of the crackheads we got around heaaaa.capesteve wrote:Maybe a stupid question but why would you bottom paint? I use my Pacific in salt water up to two weeks at a time with no bottom paint, no problems...
I prefer displaced Hillbilly to describe my situation..
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What ya gonna do when the next Sunami comes when Japan disappears from site?Chtucker wrote:Because it will stay in the water year round except for service. Not even buying a trailer (yet)...
Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
Thank the heavens that I wasn't blown away in hurricane first!
Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
http://www.boatzincs.com/hull_bolt-on-aluminum.htmlChtucker wrote:Are those different compound zincs or just different sizes?
I haven't found much info about them..
These stand off from the hull captured on 1/2" stainless bolts. Alloy is aluminum which will work better for your fresh/salt application like this:
http://aluminumalloyboats.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2851
I'd love to paint your boat. Motor it to the Eagle Harbor ramp on Bainbridge & I'll find a big trailer to get it over to my shop.
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Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
Armstrong uses EPaint primer and antifouling. Any experience with it?
Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
you really need paint in fresh water?
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Yes, unless I want a kelp garden to start.
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Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
When I was looking at the bottom paint in our Marine Store on the Island and pondering what way to go, I asked Chet what he thought? His reply was very down to earth and asked how much time I spent each year scraping bottoms? We'll I usually have to scrape the Aluminum boats twice a season and it takes a couple hours each time. Well when you add up how many hours it takes to apply the coating, the temperature required to apply it (the only time warm enough is right in the middle of the season), and the cost of materials it just didn't add up for us. One advantage for us is running the boats through the skim ice in the fall when hunting it really helps cleaning off a lot of barnacles. None of the bottom materials will hold up to boats that get beached. Everybody has a different set of circumstances though, you just need to think about your own. Our boats are moored in a lens of freshwater from the estuary and run in the salt.
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Re: Zincs and bottom paint for mixed water (fresh and salt)
Our boat will be moored in fresh water, but trips will be two to three weeks in salt water. We aren't interested I speed. If we decided later to do bottom paint, the prep work would be far more expensive than not
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I've put epaint on a few boats and found it to be marginal at inhibiting growth. Its been awhile, maybe they have improved their formulation and it might be fine for a FW kept boat. I'm going to run some tests on a water based primer/anti-foul system that shows some promise as I wouldn't mind moving away from solvent based systems if it works.
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When moored at your permenant location, why don't you get a boat lift installed...there are floating ones, then hull is out of water and for the few weeks in salt you may not have an issue.
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