Last year I hauled out at Richards Bay,
South Africa The Zululand Yacht club was very friendly but the yard was something else, Up front I knew it was expensive. The real problem was the “Chugoku bottom paint" they
sold me. I put it in quotes because I gave no idea what it is.
When I got to
Cape Town about 2 months after launch
barnacles had already started to grow. It seems there is no biocide, I called the yard in Richards Bay and they only gave me the distributor contact info, but no other help. They said I was the customer and I needed to complain, they didn’t apply it,
sold it
cheap (ha ha) and I did other things while hauled out so he owed me nothing.
I called the distributor who gave me the Chugoku rep in
Cape Town. He came out, looked at it and said “Yada yada,” and would get back to me. But he never did.
Then I noticed on the can it says made under licence by Dekro. So I got their rep to come out. He said it wasn’t their can and he would get to the bottom of this. He took a sample to be tested – never was. They would definitely do something because the
paint was bad. In the end he said they wouldn’t do anything
Here’s the
rudder after 11 months.
Any ideas what I can do?