How much paint for cat hull?

[Canibul]

We've had the boat two years and are about to have a coat of bottom paint applied by local yard. They have estimated that one coat of paint for the two hulls of our 40 ft. catamaran will take 4.5 gallons, at near $ 400 per gallon.

This is local yard price for Micron 66.

A friend has told me he calculated the coverage based upon experience with West Marine paint and thinks that a gallon and a half should do one coat, unthinned.

What has been your experience? How many gallons to put one coat on the hulls of a 40 ft. sailing cat. roughly?

or smoothly, we hope.

[colemj]

Can't help with the price, but on our 40' catamaran, it takes ~1.25 gal per coat for the entire boat using Micron 66 (and all other paints so far). So I think your friend's estimate is much closer than the yards.

Mark

[FSMike]

Just painted my 36' Solaris Sunstar which is a keel boat drawing 3' 8", sorry, don't have the hull dimensions handy. Anyway, put on 3 full coats plus a 4th on the waterline, used 4 gallons.
I don't think I would trust your yard too much.

[ShaktisBoy]

Just did Mulligan a Leopard 40, 8 weeks ago. It took 4 gallons non thinned for one coat of Petit Ultima SR60. Spent about 365.00 a gallon in a do it yourself yard.

[Canibul]

They're charging me $ 495 a gallon. Micron 66.

[impi]

We used 6 gals for 2 coats ... a 3rd coat on bow area, leading edges to rudders and water line ... Lagoon 440

[atoll]

37ft prout,two coats of epoxy undercoat used 2 gallons for both hulls.

antifouling on a very hot day 2 coats used about 2.5 gallons with extra on leading edges and central nacelle

[Sarayu]

We used 12 Litres Seajet for our Leopard 40, two coats, plus third cover of top 300ml along waterline and leading edges.No thinner used and rolled on.

[colemj]

Originally Posted by ShaktisBoy

Just did Mulligan a Leopard 40, 8 weeks ago. It took 4 gallons non thinned for one coat of Petit Ultima SR60. Spent about 365.00 a gallon in a do it yourself yard.

4 gallons for a single coat? Did you do this yourself? Was the hull in full sun and hot? That quantity seems very high for that boat.

Mark

[colemj]

Originally Posted by Sarayu

We used 12 Litres Seajet for our Leopard 40, two coats, plus third cover of top 300ml along waterline and leading edges.No thinner used and rolled on.

That is 3 gallons for two coats - which seems about what I would have thought for that boat. We have friends with a Lep40 and they also used 3 gallons for 2+ coats.

Mark

[thinwater]

Just pathetic. They are yanking your chain, on both the price and the amount. Do you own pain man, it's easy on cats.

2 gallons for 2 coats with Micron 66. plus some extra in wear areas (really only 1.7 gallons.

34' cat.

[Canibul]

Well my options are to wait until I can get up to Spanish Wells, or down to Fajardo I suppose. That might not be this season.

[contrail]

Leopard 45, five gallons for two coats and another on the leading edges and the waterline. Basically two gallons per complete coat.

[Captain Bill]

3 gallons for two coats with Trinidad SR. Waterline length is 41.5 on my boat.

[ShaktisBoy]

I stand corected we got two coats with 4 gallons.