Antifoul help please

[jrn]

We have a Sealine S28 and would like some advice on what antifoul to use. Sealine use Blakes Seatech which is £84 for 2.5 litres ouch!! The boat is kept on the Norfolk Broads with frequent sea trips. Is the Seatech an eroding antifoul and if so which Blakes or International products are recommended and cheaper I hope. Any advice would be appreciated before I spend hundreds of pounds on Seatech.

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[richardabeattie]

If your boat is a bilge keeler then don't bother with antifouling at all. It takes at least a day to scape off and prepare and a day to put on. It costs a lot and seldom works well. I just launch with a clean bottom and, once a summer, dry out somewhere and spend at least half an hour scrubbing off any odd barnacles with the back of a broom. Then when I haul out I spend another half hour with a pressure washer.

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[jrn]

Thanks for the advice. The boat is however a sports cruiser and is alredy antifouled with "Seatech" and need a top up.

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[brianhumber]

In my exprience stay away from XM. Several people including myself around the Chi area have found it is a fertilizer rather than antifoul.
ps we were all on tideway swinging moorings and in the treated sewage flow from Appledram works so our antifoul has to work damm hard over a season.

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[AndCur]

It depends on where you moor and how often you use your boat. I have been using XM for the last three seasons and every year the boat has been very clean apart for a slight coating of thin slime. Other boats moored in the same place which have used other brands have not fared so well.

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[oldsaltoz]

G'day jrn.

One method of evaluating antifouling is to read the can and see what percentage of active ingredients are in it, it will surprise you that some pretty expensive brands have little if any more than many of the mid range products;
well worth the time taken to read a few labels.

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[Guest]

Original post was MOBO

A Sealine 28.


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[Guest]

Read labels BUT

It is also important what carrier is used ..... not only the ingredients that deter the crud. Some cheap a/f's just crack up and are waste of time ..... eg. Old Jotun in Boat Jumbles ..... etc.

All when in date should do the job .... Blakes, XM, Jotun and International as well as many others etc.

For sealine surely you must be looking for a hard a/f ? you run a little quicker in the water than a sail boat does ....


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[john_morris_uk]

Re: Read labels BUT

Different Antifouling seems to work better or worse in different parts of the country. Try asking what other local boats have used and find one that other locals seem to be happy with. Antifouling is like talking about boots to a Royal Marine - guaranteed to start a conversation. At our haul out there was lots of comparing of bottoms and comparing how foul they were. (And you lot have got smutty minds before you reply to this!)

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[brianhumber]

Agree, that year I did well over 3,000 miles from March til October and the rest of the time she gets the tidal flow on the mooring. Possible that an extra coat would have made all the difference. I just put it down to stupidity on my part for buying cheap and resolved not to touch the stuff or recommend to others to use the stuff again.

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[chrisD]

I have been quite impressed with XM 3000 in Chichester Harbour and have used it for two years now. Took the boat today after 9 months on a swinging mooring and there wasn't a lot to wash off. But I'm open to suggestions if other Chi sailors have strong recommendations. I tend to agree that different brands perform better from place to place.

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[davidfox]

I agree with the comments on XM, the cheapest one was a complete disaster 4 seasons ago, you get what you pay for in most things, anti fouling is no exception

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