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• Water-based bottom paint?
  • There is an extensive study of bottom paint options in this month's Practical Sailor
  • I've been using Hydrocoat. I too had a few pounds of shellfish stuck to the keel last fall.
  • I've had good luck with Hydrocoat
    • Same here in Western LIS. Hydrocoat works well
  • We used Hydrocoat
    • That is pretty bleak.
      • I have used ACP50
  • I have been using hydrocoat for about 5 years...
    • How much do you apply every spring Todd?
      • I have a marker coat under the working paint...
        • A full coat takes a gallon
  • Another Hydrocoat user
    • That's about where I am with it.
      • About the same as you, Tom
        • If we didn't do anything, would the results be that much different?
          • This same thread is ongoing on the other board.
          • Around here there would be a HUGE difference
            • Need bottom paint
          • Towing my inflatable from Mobjack Bay, around to Texas, Sept thru Dec