bottom paint

[Tomek-N41]

can you people help me fine best bottom paint and best way to put on my Newport 41 (1978), last time 6 years ago I was using Trinidad and using diver services every 3-4 months to clean the quick growing beard,
I sail San Fran bay & Pacific, in the bay **** grows v. fast.
Haw to buy TBT ( I know is bad, hash) help please, Y can e-mail also,
Thanks


( life is beautiful just don't piss against the wind )

[neilpride]

I use Trinidad last time, 3 coats, last clean for 12 months, after that , a soft scrub every 2 or 3 months , try to found TBT stuff if you can or hig loaded cooper paint.

[Artful Dodger]

To solve my bottom problem I always put 12 packs of Cayenne pepper in the last gallon of anti fouling, and don't have to scrub for at least a year, and we stay in the water full time and live aboard, and pull the boat every three years.

[barnakiel]

A neat way is to put 2 coats of soft over hard paint. Less scrubbing the first year or so.

b.

[fstbttms]

Originally Posted by Tomek-N41

can you people help me fine best bottom paint and best way to put on my Newport 41 (1978), last time 6 years ago I was using Trinidad and using diver services every 3-4 months to clean the quick growing beard,
I sail San Fran bay & Pacific, in the bay **** grows v. fast.
Haw to buy TBT ( I know is bad, hash) help please,

You already have the best anti fouling paint available- Trinidad. However, no anti fouling paint is going to last more than 2 or 3 years and yours is well past that. To maximize paint longevity and boat performance, you should be having the bottom cleaned every 2 months in the SF Bay Area.

Regarding using a TbT paint- even if you are somehow able to get your hands on some, no yard in the country will let you apply it.

BTW- the cayenne pepper thing is a wive's tale and a waste of good pepper.