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Bottom Paint

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Phil MacFarlane

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Can anyone recommend a good (fast) bottom paint for a trailer boat? I want to be able to leave the boat in the water for several weeks at a time but let her rest on her trailer most of the time.

Thanks
 
I think you need an ablative bottom paint for that use (in the water for awhile, then out); for racing it needs to be a hard ablative. If you want white your choices are:

1) Interlux Micron (CSC?) - Recommended by my former diver (Matt P).

2) Trilux 33 - What I've had for nine years (wet-sailed for 6, dry-sailed for 3).

3) Vivid - The softest of the three, and mixed results from what I've heard.

Ragtime!'s bottom paint is getting thin and streaky but go give it a feel (as it were). I left it in for three months last Fall and it came clean again easily - and by then the paint job was two years old. I'll probably go with the Micron next time though, based on Matt's recommendation.

Make sure you apply a barrier coat first (Interprotect etc.).
 
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