antifouling removal

[Guest]

A year ago (or more) I saw an interesting article in PBO (or maybe YM) on a method for removing antifouling using a pressured slurry. Apparently this removed old antifouling without damaging the gel-coat. Does anyone know about this method, and who operates it. Any comments welcome. It's come time to remove all those years of accumulated antifoul!

 

[longjohnsilver]

A company called Symblast specialis in this. A friend of mine used them recently and was pleased with the results. they are poole based and can be found on www.symblast.co.uk

 

[deejames]

I used a company called Jenks Marine Blasting - 023 804 02653 - they are based in Bursledon (Southampton).
The results were excellent - a few traces of 20 years of accumulated antifouling were left, but the gel-coat was undamaged, and even quite a bit of the original epoxy protective paint remained.
I got the last few bits of antifouling off with a scraper and was left with a perfect key for a new epoxy protective coating.


deejames