Compass Antifouling

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Very dissapointed.
Put two coats of their cruising antifouling. Still have one tin left.After 18 months my was taken out of the water today. How embrassing. All the other 16 boats came out with not a single growth.The odd barnicle. My boat look like black beards" beards". Seaweed all over the bottom and the dreaded barnicles everywhere. Are we allowed to keel haul Compass or do we cross human rights or some european regs. How can a major company allowed to sell a product which is just a famous brand of house paint at your local diy supermarket.
Having watched that Pirate Drama a few weeks ago. Perhaps winding a thin cord around there necks till there eyes pop out. That would make them jump about.
Do not panic I would not give away my other tin.
 
I am in a high fouling area and scrubbing off at 3 month intervals still sees the hull covered with a thin layer of slime ,and the keel and prop with minor levels of barnacle encrustation.
I shall scrub off bi-monthly from now on- I use Blakes Cruising Performance.

The boat behind me, on trot moorings, hasn't been out for a year and your description describes that boat's condition judging by what I can see of its waterline
 
Fouling conditions vary from harbour to harbour, estuary to estuary etc, etc - i.e one paint cannot suit all.

I'm sure the Compass stuff is being used by people in other areas without complaint and anyone would like to see an af paint that is still effective after 18 months!
 
Here on the North Essex coast I have never found a brand of antifouling that is anything other than completely useless at preventing growth. For anyone to complain when they haven't scrubbed for 18 months seems to be unrealistic in the extreme. In my experience, an antifouling that will keep the boat clean for 18 weeks hasn't been invented yet. Indeed most of them seem to foul up after 18 days in the high summer.

Maybe I've just been unlucky but I'm very jaundiced indeed about the whole AF deal. I've now got Coppercoat, which last year proved to be just as useless as anything else at keeping the hull clean, but may be slightly better than bare gel coat and has the advantage of being a hard surface to scrub off and doesn't need repainting.

On the posts every month for a scrub off, I'm afraid, is the only thing that works IMHO.
 
Your observations would make me ask the other boat owners what they use as an antifouling and how often they scrub. Different products work better in various areas.

The advise given by the other esteemed posters may be correct, scrub more often. But until you know what the other owners are doing, you are only guessing.
 
I had my boat anti-fouled in Den Helder during a re-fit in 2005 and brought it back to Ticthmarsh in Sept 05. it's been in the water throughout apart from a single lift and pressure-wash 12 months ago. I don't know what antifoul the Dutch used but it's still working! I've never been more than 3 months without a "beard" before although the boat was in Levington in those days.
 
Just the same here on a swinging mooring on the north Kent coast. In a half tide marina in the same estuary our AF lasted a whole season, out on the trot it lasted a whole fortnight. Anyone know where I can get some TBT?
 
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Here on the North Essex coast I have never found a brand of antifouling that is anything other than completely useless at preventing growth. For anyone to complain when they haven't scrubbed for 18 months seems to be unrealistic in the extreme. In my experience, an antifouling that will keep the boat clean for 18 weeks hasn't been invented yet. Indeed most of them seem to foul up after 18 days in the high summer.

Maybe I've just been unlucky but I'm very jaundiced indeed about the whole AF deal. I've now got Coppercoat, which last year proved to be just as useless as anything else at keeping the hull clean, but may be slightly better than bare gel coat and has the advantage of being a hard surface to scrub off and doesn't need repainting.

On the posts every month for a scrub off, I'm afraid, is the only thing that works IMHO.

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Well, just over the other side of the Colne, things are no different. Best suggestion that I have heard of late is use any Exterior Gloss paint! Face it, it will be no less effective, and a damn site cheaper!!
 
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