Antifouling for Holland

[pmd]

Shortly due to relocate my boat from the UK to Holland. Can anyone with experience of Dutch waters recommend an anti fouling paint. I would prefer more than a single season antifouling, even if it meant more than one coat of antifouling at the outset. Advice would be welcome. Many thanks

 

[ccscott49]

Fresh, salt or both water?

If salt, then normal UK type antifouling.
If fresh, blakes waterways antifouling.
If both UK sea antifouling. Easily get two seasons, as fresh water critters dont like salt and vice versa.

 

[vyv_cox]

If you are berthing in fresh water you can almost get away with no antifouling at all. Almost anything will work reasonably well, just producing a thin coat of black slime, very commonly seen on the majority of Dutch fresh-water boats. We bought the cheapest we could find and I would swim around in the height of summer, scrubbing the top couple of feet at the water line. If you use an eroding paint this will stain the water, which the Dutch are quite sensitive about, so we changed to a hard, scrubbable one. This was very successful and we easily achieved two seasons without hauling in between.

If you berth in salt water then you need something a little better, but going into fresh water for a week is as good as scrubbing. Your hull will be almost perfectly clean as all the fouling is killed and falls off.

 

[PeterGibbs]

This was threaded just a few days ago - do have a look.

PWG