Antifouling

[roycharles]

Scrubbed the boat off today and added to my list of antifouling not to buy - this time Seajet Emperor.
Boat covered in barnacles and slime (no weed) after a little over two months.
Location: East coast - River Crouch
The Seajet literature and the rep at LIBS suggested that this was a worthwhile product so I'm sadly disappointed.
Has anyone tried Seajet Platignum? According to the literature this has a performance equivalent to TBT! A bold statement indeed.
A friend has also scrubbed off today and has had a good result with International 'Ultra'. Plenty of slime but no barnacles or weed.

 

[jonathankent]

How often do you use the boat??

 

[Slow_boat]

Have you tried 'Marclear workboat red'?

This is my second season using it in the upper reaches of the Crouch and it is very effective. Try contacting Marclear direct, they're in Port Solent. Their varnish is good, to.

www.Eventides.org.uk did a test on it and can get a discount.

 

[roycharles]

The boat is used most weekends

 

[jonathankent]

Just asking as if its not used particularly often, I think things will still grow on it no matter how much you pay for it.

 

[smth448]

I have formed the conclusion that none of the stuff works on a river. We sail on the Medway and the fouling there is probably just as bad as the Crouch. I have tried the expensive stuff and the cheap stuff and they are all as useless as each other. You must accept that all antifouling is good for is transferring large amounts of cash from you to the chandlers. I have tried Seajet, mainly because it was cheap, and it is no worse than anything else.
Best thing I have used was Internationa VC Offshore. No better than anything else as antifouling but since it is hard and has teflon in it, it makes scrubbing every fortnight an easier job.

 

[tobble]

I have seajet shogun on at the mo. I haven't been out much at all recently and a dive in to inspect and scrub revealed lots of slime and a few isolated barinicles. went back in in last september. (don't ask)

 

[Koeketiene]

We put on Hempel Hard at the end of May.

River Orwell (swinging mooring) - not a sign of marine growth or slime. Apart from a 2 by 6 inch spot we seem to have missed just below the waterline.

Previous coat lasted 3 years
First year: nothing - smooth as a baby's bum
Second year: some slime
Third year: some seaweed, but not barnacles

Paid 30€/litre (5ltrs smallest)

 

[Inselaffe]

I am on Colne in a half-tide mud mooring and so far this season nothing at all on my boat with (black) International VC offshore.

I am only back to use the boat for a week every month, so for 3 weeks a month she isnt used.

Before I was on N German coast behind Friesian Islands on a half-tide mud berth, and there got some barnacles where the mud gave a hard coating to the antifouling, but as SMTH448 says, easy to scrape off with Teflon in it. Should say in Germany I only used the normal VC, not the offshore version.

Expensive, but a 22 foot boat dont break the bank /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif